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Singh, Leher; Hui, Tam Jun; Chan, Calista; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Developmental Science, 2014
To learn words, infants must be sensitive to native phonological contrast. While lexical tone predominates as a source of phonemic contrast in human languages, there has been little investigation of the influences of lexical tone on word learning. The present study investigates infants' sensitivity to tone mispronunciations in two groups of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Intonation, Infants, Phonemics

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