The Effect of Speech Variability on Tonal Language Speakers’ Second Language Lexical Tone Learning

Speech variability facilitates non-tonal language speakers’ lexical tone learning. However, it remains unknown whether tonal language speakers can also benefit from speech variability while learning second language (L2) lexical tones. Researchers also reported that the effectiveness of speech variab...

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Main Authors: Kaile Zhang, Gang Peng, Yonghong Li, James W. Minett, William S-Y. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01982/full