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William Choi; Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigates whether (a) Cantonese and (b) English listeners integrally or independently perceive Thai tone and segmental information. Listeners completed a modified AX discrimination task that contained a control block (without segmental variation) and an orthogonal block (with segmental variation). Relative to their own performance in…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Thai, English, Listening
Julia H. Howe; Erica S. Baumgartner – Review of Education, 2024
This literature review explores the impact of music on tonal language learning, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Utilising searches across major databases such as ERIC (EBSCO), ProQuest Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science from 2005 to 2024, we selected relevant peer-reviewed English-language articles examining music's role in aiding tone…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Mandarin Chinese, Music, Second Language Learning
Ahufinger, Nadia; Ferinu, Laura; Sanz-Torrent, Mònica; Andreu, Llorenç; Evans, Julia L. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: A growing body of work shows that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) perform poorly on statistical word learning (SWL) tasks, consistent with the predictions of the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis that predicts that procedural memory is impaired in DLD. To date, however, SWL performance has not been compared across…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Vocabulary Development
Nicholas Balint Pandza – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Mandarin lexical tone learning has repeatedly been identified as a difficult linguistic feature for non-native speakers of tonal languages like English, even for native English learners of Mandarin at high proficiencies (e.g., Pelzl et al., 2019b). Sound perception training has been shown to help native English speakers perceive lexical tone…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Tone Languages
Xu, Lei; Luo, Jianfen; Wang, Min; Xie, Dianzhao; Chao, Xiuhua; Li, Jinming; Liu, Xianqi; He, Shuman; Spencer, Linda; Guo, Ling-Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate vocabulary development in Mandarin-speaking children with bilateral cochlear implants (CIs), bimodal stimulation (CI plus hearing aids [HAs]), or unilateral CIs during the first year after CI activation. Method: Participants included 23 children with simultaneous bilateral CIs, 23 children with…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries, Children
Li, Manhong; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Zhu, Jiaqiang; Chen, Fei – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Armed with the theory of embodied cognition proposing tight interactions between perception, motor, and cognition, this study aimed to test the hypothesis that speech rate-altered Mandarin lexical tone perception in quiet and noisy environments could be affected by the bodily dynamic cross-modal information. Method: Fifty-three adult…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Perception, Speech Skills, Visual Stimuli
Ning, Li-Hsin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Our audio--vocal system involves a negative feedback system that functions to correct for fundamental frequency (f[subscript 0]) errors in production. Therefore, automatic and opposing responses appear when an unexpected change in voice pitch is present in auditory feedback. This study explores following responses to pitch perturbation in…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Feedback (Response), Intonation, Foreign Countries
Zhu, 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
Nguyen, Duc Minh; Lee, Sue Ann S.; Hayakawa, Toko; Yamamoto, Masahiko; Natsume, Nagato – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to examine normative nasalance values in Vietnamese adult speakers with Southern dialect and to investigate the effects of vowels and tones on . Previous studies examining nasalance have been mainly conducted with Indo-European languages. Limited information on nasalance is available in tone languages…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Vietnamese People, Dialects, Intonation
Lau, Joseph C. Y.; To, Carol K. S.; Kwan, Judy S. K.; Kang, Xin; Losh, Molly; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Atypical pitch processing is a feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which affects non-tone language speakers' communication. Lifelong auditory experience has been demonstrated to modify genetically-predisposed risks for pitch processing. We examined individuals with ASD to test the hypothesis that lifelong auditory experience in tone…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intonation, Auditory Perception
Wang, Yuxia; Yang, Xiaohu; Ding, Hongwei; Xu, Can; Liu, Chang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the aging effects on the categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin lexical Tones 1-4 and Tones 1-2 in noise. It also investigated whether listeners' categorical tone perception in noise correlated with their general tone identification of 20 natural vowel-plus-tone signals in noise. Method: Twelve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages
Choi, William – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception. Method: The sample contained 124 participants, evenly split into Cantonese musician, Cantonese nonmusician, English musician, and English nonmusician groups. They completed…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Music, Speech, Auditory Perception
Wei Wang – SAGE Open, 2023
As the most commonly established and attested language contact phenomenon, loanwords, also known as lexical borrowings, may undergo transformations when borrowed from the source language (SL) to the borrowing language (BL). Previous studies have separately illustrated the role of perception and phonology in the borrowing process. However, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Mandarin Chinese, Monolingualism
Mok, Peggy Pik Ki; Li, Vivian Guo; Fung, Holly Sze Ho – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Previous studies showed both early and late acquisition of Cantonese tones based on transcription data using different criteria, but very little acoustic data were reported. Our study examined Cantonese tone acquisition using both transcription and acoustic data, illustrating the early and protracted aspects of Cantonese tone acquisition.…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages, Phonetics, Language Acquisition
Zhang, Hao; Ding, Hongwei; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Lexical tone perception is known to be persistently difficult for individuals with cochlear implants (CIs). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) in improving Mandarin tone perception for native-speaking children with CIs. Method: A total of 28 Mandarin-speaking pediatric CI…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese