What Makes Lexical Tone Special: A Reverse Accessing Model for Tonal Speech Perception

Previous studies of tonal speech perception have generally suggested harder or later access to lexical tone than segmental information, but the mechanism underlying the lexical tone disadvantage is unclear. Using a speeded discrimination paradigm free of context information, we confirmed multiple li...

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Main Authors: Xiang Gao, Ting-Ting Yan, Ding-Lan Tang, Ting Huang, Hua Shu, Yun Nan, Yu-Xuan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02830/full