The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups

L Liu, R Lai, L Singh, M Kalashnikova, PCM Wong… - Brain and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent
of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We …

The pitch contour of the French discourse marker donc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed modeling

D Deng, F Wang, R Wayland - Journal of French Language Studies, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this article, we explored the pitch contour patterns of the French discourse marker donc in
realizing different pragmatic functions from native and non-native oral corpora in French …

[PDF][PDF] Non-native lexical tones presented in low-high direction is beneficial for learning: Evidence from Cantonese rising and level tones

T Zhang, M He, B Li - 12th Speech Prosody Conference (SP2024), 2024 - isca-archive.org
Learning Cantonese tones is challenging for Mandarin speakers. Various factors are
reported to affect non-native tone perception, and they include both linguistic ones such as …