Perception of L2 Tones: L1 lexical tone experience may not help

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Xinchun ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXICAL TONES; PITCH ACCENTS; TONE LANGUAGES;

EID: 84898497457     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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