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Yao, Yao; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Chen, Fei; Zhu, Jiaqiang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Previous research has indicated the beneficial effects of musical training on speech perception in children. However, little has been known about whether musical training exerts transfer effects on fine-grained perception of linguistic pitch and time information. This study aimed to investigate the effects of different musical training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Music Education, Speech Communication
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Li, Manhong; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Zhu, Jiaqiang; Chen, Fei – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Armed with the theory of embodied cognition proposing tight interactions between perception, motor, and cognition, this study aimed to test the hypothesis that speech rate-altered Mandarin lexical tone perception in quiet and noisy environments could be affected by the bodily dynamic cross-modal information. Method: Fifty-three adult…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Perception, Speech Skills, Visual Stimuli
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Zhu, Jiaqiang; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Chen, Fei; Zhang, Caicai; Shao, Jing; Wiener, Seth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Previous studies have shown that individuals with congenital amusia exhibit deficient pitch processing across music and language domains. This study investigated whether adult Chinese-speaking listeners with amusia were still able to learn Thai lexical tones based on stimulus frequency of statistical distribution via distributional…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Perceptual Impairments