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Even in the Best-Case Scenario L2 Learners Have Persistent Difficulty Perceiving and Utilizing Tones in Mandarin: Findings from Behavioral and Event-Related Potentials Experiments
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Pelzl, Eric; Lau, Ellen F.; Guo, Taomei; DeKeyser, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Lexical tones are widely believed to be a formidable learning challenge for adult speakers of nontonal languages. While difficulties--as well as rapid improvements--are well documented for beginning second language (L2) learners, research with more advanced learners is needed to understand how tone perception difficulties impact word recognition…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Difficulty Level