Do Explicit Instruction and High Variability Phonetic Training Improve Nonnative Speakers’ Mandarin Tone Productions?
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Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone productions before and after perceptual training.
Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones has been shown to be effective, with trainees' identification improving by 21%. Improvement also generalized to new stimuli and new talkers, and was retained when tested six months after training [Y. Wang et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 3649-3658 (1999)]. The present study investigates whether the tone contrasts gained perceptually transfe...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Modern Language Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0026-7902,1540-4781
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12619