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Yin-To Chui; Zhen Qin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Previous studies have reported the success of distributional learning for adult speakers across segmental and suprasegmental categories immediately after training. On the other hand, second language (L2) perception models posit that the ease with which learners perceive a nonnative speech contrast depends on the perceptual mapping between…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Processes, Intonation
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Thordardottir, Elin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
In response to the recent sharp increase of L2 students in Reykjavik schools, allocation criteria for special L2 services were adopted that were based on length of residence and on whether children's home language was tonal or not tonal. This study set out to evaluate the appropriateness of these criteria, and to replicate previous findings of a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, Linguistic Input, Repetition
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Sung, Margaret M. Y. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1979
Studies the relationship between Chinese culture and the use of homonyms and their avoidance in Chinese. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cultural Influences, Folk Culture