The influence of linguistic and musical experience on Cantonese word learning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4756-4769

  Cooper, Angela ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTIFICATION; LEXICAL TONES; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; TONE LANGUAGES; WORD IDENTIFICATION; WORD LEARNING;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866456582     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4714355     Document Type: Article

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