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Mandarin Tone Identification in Musicians and Non-musicians: Effects of Modality and Speaking Style 音乐家和非音乐家普通话声调识别:情态和说话风格的影响

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-24

Yueqiao Han, M. Goudbeek, Maria Mos, M. Swerts

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Early peak: a case in Persian 早期高峰:波斯语的一个案例

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-28

Nasimeh Bahmanian, Moharram Eslami

引用次数: 0

Tonogenesis: the perception of tone and the role of place of articulation in Kurtöp 张力发生:音调的感知和发音位置在Kurtöp中的作用

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-17

W. Peralta

引用次数: 1

A Comprehensive Framework for F0 Estimation and Sampling in Modeling Prosodic Variation in Infant-Directed Speech 婴儿指示语韵律变化建模中F0估计和采样的综合框架

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-15

M. Arjmandi, Laura C. Dilley, Matthew Lehet

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引用次数: 1

Extrinsic normalization of lexical tones and vowels?Beyond a simple contrastive general auditory mechanism 词汇音调和元音的外在规范化?超越了简单的对比一般听觉机制

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-46

Kaile Zhang, Matthias J. Sjerps, Caicai Zhang, Gang Peng

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引用次数: 3

The role of orthography in L2 segment and tone encoding by learners at different proficiency levels 不同熟练程度学习者正字法在二语语段和声调编码中的作用

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-50

Yen-Chen Hao, C. Yang

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引用次数: 1

Voice Gender Effect on Tone Categorization and Pitch Perception 语音性别对声调分类和音高感知的影响

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-21

Wei Lai

引用次数: 0

The Perception of Mandarin Tones by Thai and Indonesian Speakers 泰语和印尼语使用者对普通话声调的感知

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-40

R. Chow, Yi Liu, J. Ning

引用次数: 2

Changes of entering tones in Mandarin Chinese revisited: From a corpus-based approach 从语料库的角度重新审视汉语入音的变化

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-38

Chihkai Lin

引用次数: 1

Kazakh Learners' Production of Mandarin Tones in Colloquial Contexts 哈萨克语学习者在口语语境中普通话声调的产生

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-48

Yaqing Zhang, Ying Chen

引用次数: 1