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Direct linkMarina 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
Lirong Tang; Yangxiaoxue Xu; Shiting Yang; Xiangyun Meng; Boqi Du; Chen Sun; Li Liu; Qi Dong; Yun Nan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of musical pitch processing. Its linguistic consequences have been examined separately for speech intonations and lexical tones. However, in a tonal language such as Chinese, the processing of intonations and lexical tones interacts with each other during online speech perception. Whether and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
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
Hao Zhang; Xuequn Dai; Wen Ma; Hongwei Ding; Yang Zhang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study builds upon an established effective training method to investigate the advantages of high variability phonetic identification training for enhancing lexical tone perception and production in Mandarin-speaking pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients, who typically face ongoing challenges in these areas. Method: Thirty-two…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Phonetics, Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries
Chen, Ao; Zhao, Ru; Huang, Gan; Li, Aijun; Cheung, Hintat – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Atypical speech prosody has been commonly found among autistic children. Yet it remains unknown whether prosody impairment originates from poor pitch ability in general or whether it is the result of the difficulty in understanding and using prosody for communicative purposes. Aims: To investigate whether native Mandarin…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Speech Impairments, Mandarin Chinese, Intellectual Disability
Chen Kuang; Xiaoxiang Chen; Fei Chen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Age, babble noise, and working memory have been found to affect the recognition of emotional prosody based on non-tonal languages, yet little is known about how exactly they influence tone-language-speaking children's recognition of emotional prosody. In virtue of the tectonic theory of Stroop effects and the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU)…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
Rong, Yicheng; Weng, Yi; Chen, Fei; Peng, Gang – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Enhanced pitch perception has been identified in autistic individuals, but it remains understudied whether such enhancement can be observed in the lexical tone perception of language-delayed autistic children. This study examined the categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in 23 language-delayed autistic children and two groups of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Impairments, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages
Yu Chen; Ting Wang; Hongwei Ding – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Categorical perception (CP) manifests in various aspects of human cognition. While there is mounting evidence for CP in facial emotions, CP in vocal emotions remains understudied. The current study attempted to test whether individuals with a tonal language background perceive vocal emotions categorically and to examine how factors such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
Feng, Yan; Peng, Gang – Child Development, 2023
Although children develop categorical speech perception at a very young age, the maturation process remains unclear. A cross-sectional study in Mandarin-speaking 4-, 6-, and 10-year-old children, 14-year-old adolescents, and adults (n = 104, 56 males, all Asians from mainland China) was conducted to investigate the development of categorical…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Phonemes, Phonemic Awareness
Winskel, Heather – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
A contemporary question is whether the script we read in affects our cognition, termed the script relativity hypothesis (Pae in: Script effects as the hidden drive of the mind, cognition, and culture, Springer, Berlin, 2020). The aim of this review is to examine variation in spatial layout (interword spaces and linear-nonlinear configuration) and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Tone Languages, Alphabets
Pittayawat Pittayaporn; Songphan Choemprayong – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Moklen [mkm] is a severely endangered Austronesian language spoken by a sea-based population along the Andaman coast in the southern part of Thailand. As an initial attempt to document this language, we propose a Thai-based orthography of Moklen that not only captures all the phonemic distinctions but also considers the social, political, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
Download full textTeeranon, Phanintra – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The use of education applications in language learning is rapidly increasing. This research aims to analyse the tonal perception ability of Chinese students using the Thai Tone Application with minimal pairs approach. The participants were divided into two groups, an experimental group (ones who studied in the class and used the application) and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thai, Tone Languages, Intonation
Yao, Yao; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Chen, Fei; Zhu, Jiaqiang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Previous research has indicated the beneficial effects of musical training on speech perception in children. However, little has been known about whether musical training exerts transfer effects on fine-grained perception of linguistic pitch and time information. This study aimed to investigate the effects of different musical training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Music Education, Speech Communication
William Choi; Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigates whether (a) Cantonese and (b) English listeners integrally or independently perceive Thai tone and segmental information. Listeners completed a modified AX discrimination task that contained a control block (without segmental variation) and an orthogonal block (with segmental variation). Relative to their own performance in…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Thai, English, Listening
Julia H. Howe; Erica S. Baumgartner – Review of Education, 2024
This literature review explores the impact of music on tonal language learning, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Utilising searches across major databases such as ERIC (EBSCO), ProQuest Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science from 2005 to 2024, we selected relevant peer-reviewed English-language articles examining music's role in aiding tone…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Mandarin Chinese, Music, Second Language Learning
