Acoustic characteristics of three-year-olds' correct and incorrect monosyllabic Mandarin lexical tone productions

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-151

  Wong, Puisan ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 84455202433     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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