Second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by tonal and non-tonal language speakers

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-279

  Hao, Yen Chen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84857113301     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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