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Development of Categorical Speech Perception in Mandarin-Speaking Children and Adolescents
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Feng, Yan; Peng, Gang – Child Development, 2023
Although children develop categorical speech perception at a very young age, the maturation process remains unclear. A cross-sectional study in Mandarin-speaking 4-, 6-, and 10-year-old children, 14-year-old adolescents, and adults (n = 104, 56 males, all Asians from mainland China) was conducted to investigate the development of categorical…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Phonemes, Phonemic Awareness
Age-Related Differences of Mandarin Tone and Consonant Aspiration Perception in Babble Noise
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Meng, Yaru; Chen, Fei; Feng, Yan; Peng, Gang; Zheng, Wei – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study investigated the categorical perception of Mandarin tones and consonant aspiration contrasts in babble noise among adults and adolescents aged 12-14 years, and explored the association between working memory and categorical perception. Method: Twenty-four adults and 20 adolescents with Mandarin as their native language were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
Effects of Cognitive Load on the Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones
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Feng, Yan; Meng, Yaru; Li, Hanfei; Peng, Gang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the effect of cognitive load (CL) on the categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin lexical tones to discuss the application of the generalized pulse-skipping hypothesis. This hypothesis assumes that listeners might miss/skip temporal pulses and lose essential speech information due to CL, which consequently affects…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Auditory Discrimination, Identification, Speech