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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

The Diversity of Tone Languages and the Roles of Pitch Variation in Non-tone Languages: Considerations for Tone Perception Research.

Catherine T Best

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Speech Perception and Phonological Awareness Skills in Thai-Speaking Children with Speech Sound Disorders.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) · 2026
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  4. Early Perception of Intonation in Down Syndrome: Implications for Language Intervention.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025
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  5. Efficient neural encoding as revealed by bilingualism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Catherine T BestMARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

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non-native speech perceptionnon-tone languagesprosodic hierarchytone language diversitytone processing

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PMID30863341
PMCPMC6399451

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