Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners

By Pierre A. Hallé, Yueh-chin Chang, Catherine T. Best. J. Phonetics, 2004

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Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “Although research has shown that musical training improved spatial–temporal reasoning and math skills in children ( Graziano, Peterson, & Shaw, 1999 ), relatively little”
Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities (2007, background): “Variations in discriminability of nonnative speech contrasts extend beyond vowels and consonants, to perception of tonal contrasts from tone languages (Burnham & Francis, 1997; Burnham, 2000; Hallé, Chang, & Best, 2004; So, 2005).”
From melody to lexical tone: Musical ability enhances specific aspects of foreign language perception (2010, background): “Considering their lackof categories for lexical tone discrimination (Hallé et al., 2004), they use their fine melodic contour competences to solve the linguistic perceptual problem.”