Non-tonal L2 proficiency facilitates the perception of tone and pitch contrasts in a tonal L1: evidence from Mandarin-English bilinguals.

Although the interaction between L2 proficiency and Condition was only marginally significant (the effect of L2 proficiency on the T2-T4 contrast vs. the T2-T3 contrast: β = −0.70, SE = 0.41, t = −1.72, p = 0.086), we nevertheless conducted post hoc pairwise comparisons because it was directly relevant to the aims of the present study.

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