Distributional Learning of Lexical Tones: A Comparison of Attended vs. Unattended Listening.

This study examines whether non-tone language listeners can acquire lexical tone categories distributionally and whether attention in the training phase modulates the effect of distributional learning. Native Australian English listeners were trained on a Thai lexical tone minimal pair and their per...

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Main Authors: Jia Hoong Ong, Denis Burnham, Paola Escudero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4516233?pdf=render