Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Authors

  • Zhen Qin
  • Peggy P. K. Mok

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.12864

Keywords:

Cantonese dialects-- Tone, Tone (Phonetics), Sociolinguistics, Intonation (Phonetics)

Abstract

Listeners often find some non-native sounds difficult to perceive. For example, lexical tones in Chinese languages are difficult for non-native listeners to perceive, although pitch is frequently used in their first language (L1) and is not unfamiliar to them. We conduct a cross-linguistic study to explore the factors contributing to the difficulty of tone perception for non-native listeners.

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How to Cite

Qin, . Z., & Mok, . P. P. K. (2014). Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 34, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.12864