Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Listeners often find some non-native sounds difficult to perceive. For example, lexical tones in Chinese languages are difficult for non-native listeners to perceive, although pitch is frequently used in their first language (L1) and is not unfamiliar to them. We conduct a cross-linguistic study to...

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Published in:	Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Main Authors:	Qin, Zhen, Mok, Peggy P. K.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Kansas 2013-01-01
Subjects:	Cantonese dialects > Tone Tone (Phonetics) Sociolinguistics Intonation (Phonetics)
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12864