Transfer of L1 tone knowledge to L2 vowel quantity contrasts as a secondary cue: The case of Cantonese learners of Japanese

Distinguishing vowel quantities in Japanese is problematic for Cantonese-speaking learners. Vowel length is lexically contrastive in Japanese but not in Cantonese. Apart from duration, fundamental frequency (F0) patterns are secondary cues to vowel length distinction. As tone is lexically contrastiv...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2016-10, Vol.140 (4), p.3340-3340
Hauptverfasser: Liu, Chun Yin, Hirata, Yukari
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Sprache:eng
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