Identification of acoustically modified mandarin tones by non-native listeners

Language and Speech

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-243

  Lee, Chao Yang ^a   Tao, Liang ^a   Bond, Z S ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical tone; Mandarin; Non native listeners; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952485100     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830909357160     Document Type: Article

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