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Rong, Yicheng; Weng, Yi; Chen, Fei; Peng, Gang – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Enhanced pitch perception has been identified in autistic individuals, but it remains understudied whether such enhancement can be observed in the lexical tone perception of language-delayed autistic children. This study examined the categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in 23 language-delayed autistic children and two groups of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Impairments, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages
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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
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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
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Chen, Fei; Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang; Peng, Gang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
The conclusions on prosodic pitch features in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have primarily been derived from studies in non-tonal language speakers. This cross-linguistic study evaluated the performance of imitating Cantonese lexical tones and their non-linguistic (nonspeech) counterparts by Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking children with and…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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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
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Chen, Fei; Peng, Gang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Previous studies have shown enhanced pitch and impaired time perception in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, it remains unclear whether such deviated patterns of auditory processing depending on acoustic dimensions would transfer to the higher level linguistic pitch and time processing. In this study, we compared…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation
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Chen, Fei; Peng, Gang; Yan, Nan; Wang, Lan – Journal of Child Language, 2017
To track the course of development in children's fine-grained perception of Mandarin tones, the present study explored how categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin tones emerges along age among 70 four- to seven-year-old children and 16 adults. Prominent discrimination peaks were found for both the child and the adult groups, and they were well…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Yan, Jinting; Chen, Fei; Gao, Xiaotian; Peng, Gang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: It has been reported that tone language-speaking children with autism demonstrate speech-specific lexical tone processing difficulty, although they have intact or even better-than-normal processing of nonspeech/melodic pitch analogues. In this early efficacy study, we evaluated the therapeutic potential of Auditory-Motor Mapping Training…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mandarin Chinese
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Peng, Gang; Zhang, Caicai; Zheng, Hong-Ying; Minett, James W.; Wang, William S.-Y. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: This study investigates the impact of intertalker variations on the process of mapping acoustic variations on tone categories in two different tone languages. Method: Pitch stimuli manipulated from four voice ranges were presented in isolation through a blocked-talker design. Listeners were instructed to identify the stimuli that they…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Identification, Tone Languages