Bilingualism and musicianship selectively facilitate non-native tone perception: Tone type and syllable variability matter
Published online on April 22, 2026
Abstract
Second Language Research, Ahead of Print.
This study investigated how listeners’ language and music backgrounds jointly affect their non-native tone perception in the low variability condition, where tones were constantly borne by a fixed syllable, and in the high variability condition, where ...
This study investigated how listeners’ language and music backgrounds jointly affect their non-native tone perception in the low variability condition, where tones were constantly borne by a fixed syllable, and in the high variability condition, where ...