Early linguistic experience shapes bilingual adults' hearing for phonemes in both languages

English and Mandarin Chinese differ in the voice onset times (VOTs) of /b/ and /p/. Hence the way bilinguals perceive these sounds may show 'tuning' to the language-specific acoustic structure of a bilingual's languages (a discrete model), or a shared representation across languages (...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pan, Lei, Ke, Han, Styles, Suzy J.
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163360