Musical experience modulates categorical perception of lexical tones in native Chinese speakers

Although musical training has been shown to facilitate both native and non-native phonetic perception, it remains unclear whether and how musical experience affects native speakers’ categorical perception (CP) of speech at the suprasegmental level. Using both identification and discrimination tasks,...

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Main Authors: Wu, Han, Ma, Xiaohui, Zhang, Linjun, Liu, Youyi, Zhang, Yang, Shu, Hua
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394639/