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Peer reviewedConnell, Bruce – Language and Speech, 2000
Examines tone perception in Mambila, a Benue-Congo language with four level lexical tones. A categorization experiment was run to determine some of the salient aspects of the perceptual nature of these tones. Results are discussed in light of what is known about universal tendencies of tone systems and the historical development of the Mambila…
Descriptors: African Languages, Auditory Perception, Oral Language, Tone Languages
Peer reviewedLee, Kathy Yuet Sheung; Chiu, Sung Nok; van Hasselt, Charles Andrew – Language and Speech, 2002
Investigated a new research design for the collection of reliable tone perception data from found children, compared lexical and nonlexical items for testing tone perception ability, and identified the relative ease of perceiving the three basic tone contrasts in Cantonese--high level/high rising, high level/low falling, and high rising/low…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Children, Comparative Analysis, Oral Language
