Abstract Using Best's (1995) perceptual assimilation model (PAM), we investigated auditory–
visual (AV), auditory-only (AO), and visual-only (VO) perception of Thai tones. Mandarin and …

The present study examined native language phonological and phonetic factors in non-
native lexical tone perception by tone language listeners, manipulating memory load and …

A cross tone-language perceptual assimilation study investigated native categorisations and
goodness ratings of non-native Thai tones by Thai-naive listeners differing in their native …

This paper investigated the perception of Mandarin tones by Mandarin and English
speakers; in particular, whether the perception is categorical or not. Twelve native Mandarin …

Evidence indicates that perceptual assimilation of segments is tied to L1 and L2 contrasts at
a lower phonetic level for listeners without L2 experience, but at both a phonetic and a …

Recent findings have argued in favor of the categorical perception of tonal contrasts in
Taiwanese Mandarin and Standard Mandarin (Hallé, Chang, & Best, 2004; Xu, Gandour, & …

Two experiments focus on Thai tone perception by native speakers of tone languages (Thai,
Cantonese, and Mandarin), a pitch–accent (Swedish), and a nontonal (English) language. In …

This study examined how native speakers of Australian English and French, nontone
languages with different lexical stress properties, perceived Mandarin tones in a sentence …

The categorical perception of tones is based not only on word-internal F0 cues but also on
external F0 cues in the contexts. The present study focuses on the effects of different types of …

Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent
of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We …