Crosslanguage Differences in Tone Perception: a Multidimensional Scaling Investigation

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Summary

Discriminant analysis showed that most individual speakers of a tone language (Thai or Yoruba) can be easily distinguished from speaker of a nontone language (English) on the basis of their distinctive patterns of perceptual saliency for these five dimensions.

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Published
1978-01-01
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Multidimensional scaling, Perception, Syllable, Tone (literature), Psychology

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