Pandora Joy Sze

Non-Natives Are Not Always Disadvantaged: Better-Than-Native Learning of Novel English Stress-Based Word Contrasts in Cantonese Listeners

This study investigated whether a Cantonese advantage in English lexical stress perception would benefit word learning. Twenty Cantonese listeners and 20 English listeners completed four sessions of English word learning, in which the English pseudowords differed in segmental information, lexical stress, or...