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The Development of Tone Discrimination in Infancy: Evidence from a Cross-Linguistic, Multi-Lab Report
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Marina Kalashnikova; Leher Singh; Angeline Tsui; Eylem Altuntas; Denis Burnham; Ryan Cannistraci; Ng Bee Chin; Ye Feng; Laura Fernández-Merino; Antonia Götz; Lisa Gustavsson; Jessica Hay; Barbara Höhle; René Kager; Regine Lai; Liquan Liu; Ellen Marklund; Thierry Nazzi; Daniela Santos Oliveira; Anne Marte Haug Olstad; Anthony Picaud; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Feng-Ming Tsao; Patrick C. M. Wong; Pei Jun Woo – Developmental Science, 2024
We report the findings of a multi-language and multi-lab investigation of young infants' ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language experience, as well as of tone properties. Given the high prevalence of lexical tones across human languages, understanding lexical tone acquisition is fundamental…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Implicit Association Test (IAT) Studies Investigating Pitch-Shape Audiovisual Cross-Modal Associations across Language Groups
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Shang, Nan; Styles, Suzy J. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous studies have shown that Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers exhibit different patterns of cross-modal congruence for the lexical tones of Mandarin Chinese, depending on which features of the pitch they attend to. But is this pattern of language-specific listening a conscious cultural strategy or an automatic processing effect? If…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
Characteristics of Effective Auditory Training: Implications from Two Training Programs That Successfully Trained Nonnative Cantonese Tone Identification in Monolingual Mandarin and Bilingual Mandarin-Taiwanese Tone Speakers
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Wong, Puisan; Lam, Ka Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Auditory training is important in pedagogical and clinical settings. In search of a more effective perceptual program for training new suprasegmental categories, this study examined the effect of two auditory programs that incorporated five elements that have previously been identified to be effective for training nonnative segmental and…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Training, Program Effectiveness, Sino Tibetan Languages
More Cues or More Languages? Word Segmentation Using Statistical Learning in Multilinguals, Bilinguals, and Monolinguals
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Yasmine Tachakourt; Outhmane Rassili – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study aims to extend statistical learning (SL) research to multilinguals and provide an insight into what could facilitate word segmentation. We studied how the number of cues available in the input as well as the number of languages spoken influence SL and word segmentation. We used two SL tasks: one involving the tracking of transitional…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning