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Creel, Sarah C.; Weng, Mengxing; Fu, Genyue; Heyman, Gail D.; Lee, Kang – Developmental Science, 2018
Young children learn multiple cognitive skills concurrently (e.g., language and music). Evidence is limited as to whether and how learning in one domain affects that in another during early development. Here we assessed whether exposure to a tone language benefits musical pitch processing among 3-5-year-old children. More specifically, we compared…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Intonation
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Shao, Jing; Lau, Rebecca Yick Man; Tang, Phyllis Oi Ching; Zhang, Caicai – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Congenital amusia is an inborn neurogenetic disorder of fine-grained pitch processing. This study attempted to pinpoint the impairment mechanism of speech processing in tonal language speakers with amusia. We designed a series of perception tasks aiming at selectively probing low-level pitch processing and relatively high-level…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Tone Languages, Sino Tibetan Languages, Speech Impairments
Johnson, Sarah E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Vowel nasalization usually occurs through a two-step process whereby a vowel is nasalized via coarticulation with a nearby nasal segment; when the language later drops the nasal segment, a nasal vowel remains. Spontaneous vowel nasalization is a rare, peculiar form of nasalization that emerges in contexts that lack an historical etymological nasal…
Descriptors: Thai, Intonation, Acoustics, Vowels
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Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Weak syllables in Germanic and Romance languages have been reported to be challenging for young children, with syllable omission and/or incomplete reduction persisting till age five. In Mandarin Chinese, neutral tone (T0) involves a weak syllable with varied pitch realizations across (preceding) tonal contexts and short duration. The present study…
Descriptors: Syllables, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
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Xi, Jie; Xu, Hongkai; Zhu, Ying; Zhang, Linjun; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Although acquisition of Chinese lexical tones by second language (L2) learners has been intensively investigated, very few studies focused on categorical perception (CP) of lexical tones by highly proficient L2 learners. This study was designed to address this issue with behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Method: Behavioral…
Descriptors: Chinese, Intonation, Tone Languages, Second Language Learning
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Hong, Szu-Wei; Chan, Roger W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined the acoustic properties of Taiwanese (Southern Min) lexical tones produced in esophageal speech (ES) and pneumatic artificial laryngeal speech (PAL), including onset fundamental frequency (F0), slope of F0 contour, duration, and amplitude (intensity) of the vowel portion of syllables carrying seven Taiwanese tones.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Intonation, Vowels
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Morgan Sleeper; Griselda Reyes Basurto – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
This study introduces a new methodology for integrating musical and linguistic data in language documentation, using ABC notation and open-source tools like ELAN and MuseScore. Designed for portability and exportability, and to facilitate both linguistic analysis and community-oriented material development, this methodology is used here to explore…
Descriptors: Music, Linguistics, Language Research, Language Maintenance
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Wiener, Seth; Bradley, Evan D. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Lexical tone languages like Mandarin Chinese require listeners to discriminate among different pitch patterns. A syllable spoken with a rising pitch (e.g. "b[i-acute]" 'nose') carries a different meaning than the same syllable spoken with a falling pitch (e.g. "b[i with grave]" 'arm'). For native speakers (L1) of a non-tonal…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, English
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McAndrews, Mark – Language Teaching Research, 2023
In many English language teaching contexts, listening activities resemble listening comprehension tests. Scholars have argued that this product-oriented approach is not particularly effective in helping learners improve their listening skills and have advocated for the inclusion of instruction that targets specific features of spoken language. The…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intonation
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Feng, Ye; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The ability to map similar sounding words to different meanings alone is far from enough for successful speech processing. To overcome variability in the speech signal, young learners must also recognize words across surface variations. Previous studies have shown that infants at 14 months are able to use variations in word-internal cues (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Developmental Stages, Phonology, Intonation
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Chen, Fei; Zhang, Kaile; Guo, Qingqing; Lv, Jia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore when and how Mandarin-speaking children use contextual cues to normalize speech variability in perceiving lexical tones. Two different cognitive mechanisms underlying speech normalization (lower level acoustic normalization and higher level acoustic-phonemic normalization) were investigated through the…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Acoustics, Phonemics
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A. Raymond Elliott – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Linguistic tones play an important role in expressing lexical and grammatical meaning in tone languages. A small change in the pitch of a word can result in an entirely different meaning. A logical question for those who document tone languages is whether or not singers preserve linguistic tone when singing and if so, to what degree? I begin by…
Descriptors: Language Research, Intonation, Music, Singing
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Tsukada, Kimiko; Idemaru, Kaori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This research compared individuals from two first language (L1) backgrounds (English and Japanese) to determine how they may differ in their perception of Mandarin tones (Tones 1 vs. 2 [T1-T2], Tones 1 vs. 3 [T1-T3], Tones 1 vs. 4 [T1-T4], Tones 2 vs. 3 [T2-T3], Tones 2 vs. 4 [T2-T4], Tones 3 vs. 4 [T3-T4]) on account of their L1. Method:…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Zheng, Annie; Hirata, Yukari; Kelly, Spencer D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study investigated the impact of metaphoric actions--head nods and hand gestures--in producing Mandarin tones for first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers. Method: In 2 experiments, participants imitated videos of Mandarin tones produced under 3 conditions: (a) speech alone, (b) speech + head nods, and (c) speech + hand…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Figurative Language
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Hirata-Edds, Tracy; Herrick, Dylan – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Lexical tone is a linguistic feature which can present difficulties for second language learners wanting to revitalize their heritage language. This is true not only from the standpoint of understanding and pronunciation, but also because tone is often under-documented and resources are limited or too technical to be useful to community members.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonetics, Tone Languages, Native Language
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