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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
Xu, Wen; Stahl, Garth – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
The teaching and learning of Chinese remains a fragile undertaking across all stages of Australian schooling. This paper reports on a practitioner inquiry into pedagogic practices and student engagement with disadvantaged primary school students in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) classroom in Sydney, Australia. Drawing upon studies of affect…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
Wei, Yanjun; Jia, Lin; Wang, Jianqin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that tone identification can be facilitated when auditory tones are integrated with visual information that depicts the pitch contours of the auditory tones (hereafter, visual effect). This study investigates this visual effect in combined visual-auditory integration with high- and low-variability speech…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Auditory Perception, Intonation
Wang, Li; Ong, Jia Hoong; Ponsot, Emmanuel; Hou, Qingqi; Jiang, Cunmei; Liu, Fang – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
As an information-bearing auditory attribute of sound, pitch plays a crucial role in the perception of speech and music. Studies examining pitch processing in autism spectrum disorder have produced equivocal results. To understand this discrepancy from a mechanistic perspective, we used a novel data-driven method, the reverse-correlation paradigm,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Mandarin Chinese
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
Luke West – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dynamic visuospatial support (DVS) is an effective tool for helping people learn linguistic tones (Hannah et al., 2017, Morett et al., 2022, Zhen et al., 2019), and learn words with these tonal categories (Baills et al., 2019, Morett et al., 2015). Progress in the field of embodied cognition and learning has led to recent emphasis on the pitch…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Phonology
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
Kalashnikova, Marina; Onsuwan, Chutamanee; Burnham, Denis – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Non-tone language infants' native language recognition is based first on supra-segmental then segmental cues, but this trajectory is unknown for tone-language infants. This study investigated non-tone (English) and tone (Thai) language 6- to 10-month-old infants' preference for English vs. Thai one-syllable words (containing segmental and tone…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Tone Languages, Language Acquisition
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
Gwendolyn Hyslop – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Classic typologies within prosody tend to treat 'tone' languages as being diametrically opposed to 'stress' languages. However, Hyman (2006) highlights several languages that can have both, including Seneca, Fasu, and Copala Trique. As language documentation advances and our acoustic methodologies in the field are further refined, we have seen…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
Chung, Wei-Lun; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The study aimed to examine whether oral reading prosody--the use of acoustic features (e.g., pitch and duration variations) when reading passages aloud--predicts reading fluency and comprehension abilities. Method: We measured vocabulary, syntax, word reading, reading fluency (including rate and accuracy), reading comprehension (in Grades…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Suprasegmentals, Acoustics, Predictor Variables
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
Cheng, Ying-Ying; Wu, Hsin-Chi; Shih, Hsin-Yi; Yeh, Pei-Wen; Yen, Huei-Ling; Lee, Chia-Ying – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study explored the neural marker indexing deficits in discriminating lexical tone changes in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) using mismatch negativity, an event-related potential component for auditory change detection. Mandarin has four lexical tones characterized by a high-level tone (T1),…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
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
Yen-Chen Hao – Second Language Research, 2024
The current study examined the phonolexical processing of Mandarin segments and tones by English speakers at different Mandarin proficiency levels. Eleven English speakers naive to Mandarin, 15 intermediate and 9 advanced second language (L2) learners participated in a word-learning experiment. After learning the sound and meaning of 16 Mandarin…
Descriptors: English, Native Speakers, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning