. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2012 Jan 13;66(3):438–457. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.12.006

Table 1.

Mean reaction time (ms) for 12 Mandarin consonantal contrasts for the Cantonese speakers and Mandarin speakers in Experiment 1 (with standard deviations in parenthesis)

	Cantonese speakers	Mandarin speakers
/ts/-/tʂ/	1108 (60)	1021 (60)
/ts′/-/tʂ′/	1157 (56)	1029 (56)
/s/-/ʂ/	1132 (60)	1068 (60)
/ts/-/tɕ/	1080 (59)	1052 (60)
/ts/-/tɕ′/	1061 (67)	991 (67)
/ts/-/ɕ/	1006 (65)	968 (65)
/ts′/-/tɕ/	1086 (71)	936 (71)
/ts′/-/tɕ′/	1215 (57)	945 (57)
/ts′/-/ɕ/	1029 (59)	1017 (59)
/s/-/tɕ/	1055 (62)	1000 (62)
/s/-/tɕ′/	1200 (68)	994 (68)
/s/-/ɕ/	1050 (74)	1036 (74)