The Effect of Lexicality, Frequency, and Markedness on Mandarin Tonal Categorization

While the Ganong lexicality effect has been observed for phonemic and tonal categorization, the effects of frequency and markedness are less clear, especially in terms of tonal categorization. In this study, we use Mandarin Chinese to investigate the effects of lexicality, tone frequency and markedn...

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Main Authors: Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Shao-Jie Jin, Yu-An Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836865/full