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To, Carol K. S.; Cheung, Pamela S. P.; McLeod, Sharynne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2013
This study modeled the associations between extrinsic demographic factors and children's speech acquisition in Hong Kong Cantonese. The speech of 937 Cantonese-speaking children aged 2;4 to 6;7 in Hong Kong was assessed using a standardized speech test. Demographic information regarding household income, paternal education, maternal education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Speech Skills, Speech Communication
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McBride-Chang, Catherine; Ho, Connie Suk-Han – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Measures of phonological processing, speech perception, and Chinese character recognition were administered to Hong Kong Chinese three and four year-olds. A model predicting phonological awareness from vocabulary, short-term memory, and speech perception was supported. Both phonological awareness and letter naming predicted unique variance in…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Models