Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interferen

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind. The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading e

This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and cli

Linguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with patt

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition