Distributional Learning of Lexical Tones: A Comparison of Attended vs. Unattended Listening
Jia Hoong Ong; Denis Burnham; Paola Escudero · 2015 · PLoS ONE
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Abstract
This study examines whether non-tone language listeners can acquire lexical tone categories distributionally and whether attention in the training phase modulates the effect of distributional learning. Native Australian English listeners were trained on a Thai lexical tone minimal pair and their performance was assessed using a discrimination task before and after training. During Training, participants either heard a Unimodal distribution that would induce a single central category, which should hinder their discrimination of that minimal pair, or a Bimodal distribution that would induce two
Abstract by Jia Hoong Ong; Denis Burnham; Paola Escudero, PLoS ONE (2015) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0133446