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Golestani, Narly; Zatorre, Robert J. – Brain and Language, 2009
Perceptual training was employed to characterize individual differences in non-native speech sound learning. Fifty-nine adult English speakers were trained to distinguish the Hindi dental-retroflex contrast, as well as a tonal pitch contrast. Training resulted in overall group improvement in the ability to identify and to discriminate the phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonology, Individual Differences, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning