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Choi, William; Tong, Xiuli; Deacon, Helene – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Cantonese lexical tone awareness is closely associated with 1st language Cantonese vocabulary knowledge, but its role in 2nd language English vocabulary knowledge was unclear. We addressed this issue by investigating whether and, if so, how Cantonese lexical tone awareness contributes to English expressive vocabulary knowledge in Hong…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonological Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tong, Xiuhong; Tong, Xiuli; King Yiu, Fung – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Increasing evidence suggests that children with developmental dyslexia exhibit a deficit not only at the segmental level of phonological processing but also, by extension, at the suprasegmental level. However, it remains unclear whether such a suprasegmental phonological processing deficit is due to a difficulty in processing acoustic cues of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Children, Comparative Analysis