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Direct linkLiu, Huei-Mei; Tsao, Feng-Ming; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Using Mandarin Chinese, a "tone language" in which the pitch contours of syllables differentiate words, the authors examined the acoustic modifications of infant-directed speech (IDS) at the syllable level to test 2 hypotheses: (a) the overall increase in pitch and intonation contour that occurs in IDS at the phrase level would not distort…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Syllables, Mandarin Chinese
Wong, Puisan; Schwartz, Richard G.; Jenkins, James J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
The present study investigated 3-year-old children's perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in monosyllabic words. Thirteen 3-year-old, Mandarin-speaking children participated in the study. Tone perception was examined by a picture-pointing task, and tone production was investigated by picture naming. To compare children's productions…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Tone Languages
