Can Knowing Mandarin Make Learning Thai Easier?

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Mandarin, Cantonese and Thai are all tonal languages, meaning words use different pitches to differentiate meaning. Knowing one tonal language should help you pick up tones in another language...right?

I break down the science behind 2nd Language Sound Acquisition in this video.
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[Timeline]
[02:04] Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM)
[04:35] Basics of tonal languages
[07:30] Mandarin & English speakers listen to Cantonese tones
[09:43] Mandarin, Cantonese & English speakers listen to Thai tones

[References]

Everett, C. & Blasi, D. & Roberts, S. (2015). Climate, vocal folds, and tonal languages: Connecting the physiological and geographic dots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112. 10.1073/pnas.1417413112.

Francis, A. & Ciocca, V. & Ma, L. & Fenn, K. (2008). Perceptual learning of Cantonese lexical tones by tone and non-tone language speakers. Journal of Phonetics. 36. 268-294. 10.1016/j.wocn.2007.06.005.

Reid, A. & Burnham, D. & Kasisopa, B. & Reilly, R. & Attina, V. & Xu Rattanasone, N. & Best, C. (2014). Perceptual assimilation of lexical tone: The roles of language experience and visual information. Attention, perception & psychophysics. 77. 10.3758/s13414-014-0791-3.

So, C.K. & Best C. (2010) Cross-language perception of non-native tonal contrasts: Effects of native phonological and phonetic influences. Language and Speech. 53:273–293. doi: 10.1177/0023830909357156.

Yip, M. (2002). Tone. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxxiv+341.

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