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Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Weak syllables in Germanic and Romance languages have been reported to be challenging for young children, with syllable omission and/or incomplete reduction persisting till age five. In Mandarin Chinese, neutral tone (T0) involves a weak syllable with varied pitch realizations across (preceding) tonal contexts and short duration. The present study…
Descriptors: Syllables, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
Tang, Ping; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Yuen, Ivan; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Phonological processes result in surface variants of the same words across phonological contexts, posing potential word learning challenges for children. Mandarin tone sandhi is a tonal process changing Tone 3 (T3) in different tonal and syntactic contexts, resulting in allophonic variants of T3 in connected speech. Previous studies found that…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Phonology, Language Acquisition, Young Children
Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in acquiring tonal languages, as CIs do not efficiently code pitch information. Mandarin is a tonal language with lexical tones and tonal processes such as neutral tone and tone sandhi, exhibiting contextually conditioned tonal realizations. Previous studies suggest that early…
Descriptors: Children, Assistive Technology, Preschool Children, Deafness