Download or read book The Development of a Lexical Tone Phonology in American Adult Learners of Standard Mandarin Chinese written by Sylvia Henel Sun and published by Technical Report. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study reported in this volume is based on three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether differences in learners' tone perception and production are related to differences in the effects of certain linguistic, task and learner factors.