Which is the best listener group?: Perception of Chinese emotional prosody by Chinese natives, naive Dutch listeners and Dutch L2 learners of Chinese

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-183

  Zhu, Yinyin ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mandarin; Para linguistic communication; Perception of emotional prosody; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968571427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22117245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dujal.2.2.03zhu     Document Type: Article

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