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Direct linkZhu, 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
Wiener, Seth; Bradley, Evan D. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Lexical tone languages like Mandarin Chinese require listeners to discriminate among different pitch patterns. A syllable spoken with a rising pitch (e.g. "b[i-acute]" 'nose') carries a different meaning than the same syllable spoken with a falling pitch (e.g. "b[i with grave]" 'arm'). For native speakers (L1) of a non-tonal…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, English
