Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 395-421

  Hallé, Pierre A ^a   Chang, Yueh Chin ^b   Best, Catherine T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Cross language study; Mandarin Chinese; Tones

Indexed keywords

EID: 11044226014     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(03)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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