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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
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Wong, Puisan; Leung, Carrie Tsz-Tin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Previous studies reported that children acquire Cantonese tones before 3 years of age, supporting the assumption in models of phonological development that suprasegmental features are acquired rapidly and early in children. Yet, recent research found a large disparity in the age of Cantonese tone acquisition. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Tsui, Jenny K. Y.; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy; Chung, Kevin Kien-Hoa – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
Previous research has shown that learners of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) have difficulties in understanding connected speech spoken by native English speakers. Extending from past research limited to quiet listening condition, this study examined the perception of English connected speech presented under five adverse conditions, namely…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Antoniou, Mark; Wong, Patrick C. M.; Wang, Suiping – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This study systematically examined the role of intensified exposure to a second language on accommodating talker variability. Method: English native listeners (n = 37) were compared with Mandarin listeners who had either lived in the United States for an extended period of time (n = 33) or had lived only in China (n = 44). Listeners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Li, Ying – Online Submission, 2018
In much previous research, language listeners were found to perform differently when listening to a second language (L2) spoken in foreign/native accents. Influential factors have not been ascertained. This study aimed to gain new insights into this issue. 82 Mandarin speakers of different L2 (English) proficiency and different degrees of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation
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Zhang, Yajing; Zhang, Linjun; Shu, Hua; Xi, Jie; Wu, Han; Zhang, Yang; Li, Ping – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: While previous studies have shown that children affected by dyslexia exhibit a deficit in categorical perception of segmental features in alphabetic languages, it remains unclear whether the categorical perception deficit generalizes to nonalphabetic languages at the suprasegmental level. In this study, we investigated the occurrence…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Suprasegmentals
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Zhang, Yanyan; Xiao, Jing – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students' perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening…
Descriptors: Asians, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Difficulty Level
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Wang, Hsiao-Lan Sharon; Huss, Martina; Hamalainen, Jarmo A.; Goswami, Usha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The present study explores the relationship between basic auditory processing of sound rise time, frequency, duration and intensity, phonological skills (onset-rime and tone awareness, sound blending, RAN, and phonological memory) and reading disability in Chinese. A series of psychometric, literacy, phonological, auditory, and character…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Auditory Perception, Language Processing, Semantics
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Chen, Wenkai – English Language Teaching, 2013
Intonation is the melody and soul of speech, and plays an important role in oral communication. Nevertheless, the acquisition of English intonation by Chinese EFL learners is far from being satisfactory. It is found by empirical study that the main problems existing in acquiring English rising tone are improper placement of nucleus stress, failure…
Descriptors: Intonation, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Oral Language
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Chonchaiya, Weerasak; Tardif, Twila; Mai, Xiaoqin; Xu, Lin; Li, Mingyan; Kaciroti, Niko; Kileny, Paul R.; Shao, Jie; Lozoff, Betsy – Developmental Science, 2013
Auditory processing capabilities at the subcortical level have been hypothesized to impact an individual's development of both language and reading abilities. The present study examined whether auditory processing capabilities relate to language development in healthy 9-month-old infants. Participants were 71 infants (31 boys and 40 girls) with…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Li, Miao; Cheng, Liying; Kirby, John R. – International Education, 2012
This study investigates the relationship between English listening comprehension and English and Chinese phonological awareness (PA), and the cross-linguistic transfer of PA in 48 Grade 2 and 47 Grade 4 Chinese English-immersion students. The results of the study indicate a correlation between English PA and English listening comprehension.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Phonological Awareness, Metalinguistics, Listening Comprehension
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Huang, Ying; Huang, Qiang; Chen, Xun; Wu, Xihong; Li, Liang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Perceptual integration of the sound directly emanating from the source with reflections needs both temporal storage and correlation computation of acoustic details. We examined whether the temporal storage is frequency dependent and associated with speech unmasking. In Experiment 1, a break in correlation (BIC) between interaurally correlated…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Intervals, Auditory Perception, Correlation
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Liu, Wenli; Yue, Guoan – Dyslexia, 2012
The ability to identify stop consonants from brief onset spectra was compared between a group of Chinese children with phonological dyslexia (the PD group, with a mean age of 10 years 4 months) and a group of chronological age-matched control children. The linguistic context, which included vowels and speakers, and durations of stop onset spectra…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Age, Context Effect, Dyslexia
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Sui, Changfu – International Education Studies, 2008
English has become the medium for communication in so many areas, and children are the hope of the future and shoulder the duties to structure the future. Children's English becomes more important and spreads all over the world, especially in recent years. The children's English is not perfect and it exists its own disadvantages, so this paper…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), English Instruction
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Simpson W. L.; Cheung, Him; Penney, Trevor B.; Ho, Connie S. -H. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2008
This study examined temporal processing in relation to Chinese reading acquisition and impairment. The performances of 26 Chinese primary school children with developmental dyslexia on tasks of visual and auditory temporal order judgement, rapid naming, visual-orthographic knowledge, morphological, and phonological awareness were compared with…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills
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