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The Diversity of Tone Languages and the Roles of Pitch Variation in Non-tone Languages: Considerations for Tone Perception Research by Best, Catherine T

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Cross-language Perception of Non-native Tonal Contrasts: Effects of Native Phonological and Phonetic Influences by So, Connie K., Best, Catherine T.

“…This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naïve Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups…”
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PHONETIC INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH AND FRENCH LISTENERS’ ASSIMILATION OF MANDARIN TONES TO NATIVE PROSODIC CATEGORIES by So, Connie K., Best, Catherine T.

“…This study examined how native speakers of Australian English and French, nontone languages with different lexical stress properties, perceived Mandarin tones…”
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Optimising refugee children's health/wellbeing in preparation for primary and secondary school: a qualitative inquiry by Baker, Jess R, Raman, Shanti, Kohlhoff, Jane, George, Ajesh, Kaplun, Catherine, Dadich, Ann, Best, Catherine T, Arora, Amit, Zwi, Karen, Schmied, Virginia, Eapen, Valsamma

“…Children from refugee backgrounds are less likely to access appropriate health and social care than non-refugee children. Our aim was to identify refugee…”
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Perceptual assimilation and discrimination of non-native vowel contrasts by Tyler, Michael D, Best, Catherine T, Faber, Alice, Levitt, Andrea G

“…Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address…”
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Perceptual assimilation of lexical tone: The roles of language experience and visual information by Reid, Amanda, Burnham, Denis, Kasisopa, Benjawan, Reilly, Ronan, Attina, Virginie, Rattanasone, Nan Xu, Best, Catherine T.

“…Using Best’s ( 1995 ) perceptual assimilation model (PAM), we investigated auditory–visual (AV), auditory-only (AO), and visual-only (VO) perception of Thai…”
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Inter-language interference in VOT production by L2-dominant bilinguals: Asymmetries in phonetic code-switching by Antoniou, Mark, Best, Catherine T., Tyler, Michael D., Kroos, Christian

“…Speech production research has demonstrated that the first language (L1) often interferes with production in bilinguals' second language (L2), but it has been…”
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Phonological and phonetic contributions to Thai-naïve Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers’ imitation of Thai lexical tones: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability by Catherine T. Best, Juqiang Chen, Mark Antoniou

“…The present study examined how native phonological and phonetic factors in non-native speech perception (Perceptual Assimilation Model [PAM]: Best, 1995)…”
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The Development of Language Constancy: Attention to Native Versus Nonnative Accents by Kitamura, Christine, Panneton, Robin, Best, Catherine T.

“…The time frame for infants' acquisition of language constancy was probed, using the phonetic variation in a rarely heard accent (South African English) or a…”
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Articulating What Infants Attune to in Native Speech by Best, Catherine T., Goldstein, Louis M., Nam, Hosung, Tyler, Michael D.

“…To become language users, infants must embrace the integrality of speech perception and production. That they do so, and quite rapidly, is implied by the…”
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Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals’ productions in both L1 and L2 by Antoniou, Mark, Best, Catherine T., Tyler, Michael D., Kroos, Christian

“…The way that bilinguals produce phones in each of their languages provides a window into the nature of the bilingual phonological space. For stop consonants,…”
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Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account by Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L, Baker, Brett J, Kroos, Christian H, Harvey, Mark, Best, Catherine T

“…Native speech perception is generally assumed to be highly efficient and accurate. Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of…”
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The Role of Acoustic Similarity and Non-Native Categorisation in Predicting Non-Native Discrimination: Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by English vs. Spanish Listeners by Elvin, Jaydene, Williams, Daniel, Shaw, Jason A., Best, Catherine T., Escudero, Paola

“…This study tests whether Australian English (AusE) and European Spanish (ES) listeners differ in their categorisation and discrimination of Brazilian…”
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Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener's native phonological system by Best, C T, McRoberts, G W, Goodell, E

“…Classic non-native speech perception findings suggested that adults have difficulty discriminating segmental distinctions that are not employed contrastively…”
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Revealing perceptual structure through input variation: cross-accent categorization of vowels in five accents of English by Shaw, Jason A, Foulkes, Paul, Hay, Jennifer, Evans, Bronwen G, Docherty, Gerard, Mulak, Karen E, Best, Catherine T

“…This paper characterizes the perceptual structure of vowel systems in five regional accents of English, from Australia (A), New Zealand (Z), London (L),…”
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Vocabulary Size Matters: The Assimilation of Second-Language Australian English Vowels to First-Language Japanese Vowel Categories by Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L, Best, Catherine T, Tyler, Michael D

“…Adult second-language (L2) learners' perception of L2 phonetic segments is influenced by first-language phonological and phonetic properties. It was recently…”
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Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners by Hallé, Pierre A., Chang, Yueh-Chin, Best, Catherine T.

“…Previous work has not yielded clear conclusions about the categorical nature of perception of tone contrasts by native listeners of tone languages. We reopen…”
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Magnitude of phonetic distinction predicts success at early word learning in native and non-native accents by Escudero, Paola, Best, Catherine T, Kitamura, Christine, Mulak, Karen E

“…Although infants perceptually attune to native vowels and consonants well before 12 months, at 13-15 months, they have difficulty learning to associate novel…”
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Bilingual phonology in dichotic perception: A case study of Malayalam and English voicing by Mandal, Sayantan, Best, Catherine T., Shaw, Jason, Cutler, Anne

“…Listeners often experience cocktail-party situations, encountering multiple ongoing conversations while tracking just one. Capturing the words spoken under…”
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Effects of sign language experience on categorical perception of dynamic ASL pseudosigns by Best, Catherine T., Mathur, Gaurav, Miranda, Karen A., Lillo-Martin, Diane

“…We investigated effects of sign language experience on deaf and hearing participants’ categorical perception of minimal manual contrast stimuli that met key…”
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