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Ling, Wenyi; Grüter, Theres – Second Language Research, 2022
Successful listening in a second language (L2) involves learning to identify the relevant acoustic-phonetic dimensions that differentiate between words in the L2, and then use these cues to access lexical representations during real-time comprehension. This is a particularly challenging goal to achieve when the relevant acoustic-phonetic…
Descriptors: Intonation, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Word Recognition
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Qin, Zhen; Jin, Rui; Zhang, Caicai – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Although variability of training materials has the potential to benefit the learning of lexical tones, the benefit is contingent on an individual's pitch aptitude. Previous studies did not segregate immediate learning and consolidation after an overnight interval, and little is known about how pitch aptitude differences affect…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
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Chan, Ricky K. W.; Leung, Janny H. C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
L2 sounds present different kinds of challenges to learners at the phonetic, phonological, and lexical levels, but previous studies on L2 tone learning mostly focused on the phonetic and lexical levels. The present study employs an innovative technique to examine the role of prior tonal experience and musical training on forming novel abstract…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonetics, Intonation, Phonology
Alif Silpachai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation presents three studies that examined issues related to the production and the perception of pitch in a tone language. The first study examined linguistic contexts that may modulate consonant-induced pitch perturbations (CF0) in a tone language. Previous studies have produced mixed findings regarding the role of linguistic…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Intonation, Vowels, Speech Communication
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Zhu, Shufeng; Wong, Lena L. N.; Wang, Bin; Chen, Fei – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of lexical tone contour and age on sentence perception in quiet and in noise conditions in Mandarin-speaking children ages 7 to 11 years with normal hearing. Method: Test materials were synthesized Mandarin sentences, each word with a manipulated lexical contour, that is, normal…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Children, Tone Languages, Sentences
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Shen, Jing; Wright, Richard; Souza, Pamela E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Natural speech comes with variation in pitch, which serves as an important cue for speech recognition. The present study investigated older listeners' dynamic pitch perception with a focus on interindividual variability. In particular, we asked whether some of the older listeners' inability to perceive dynamic pitch stems from the higher…
Descriptors: Cues, Intonation, Tone Languages, Older Adults
Kao, Sophia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The relationship between typological asymmetries and acquisition of phonological patterns has been a controversial topic in the field of phonology. This dissertation approaches the issue by focusing on the source of typological asymmetries involving tone patterns, and the role that typological commonness plays in the learning of patterns that are…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Learning Processes, Intonation
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Teeranon, Phanintra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study investigates the acoustic characteristics of Thai tones produced by Chinese students learning Thai through the "Tone Application", and conducts an attitude test towards the use of the Tone Application. A comparison of Thai tones pronounced by the participants with 40 native Thai speakers was also conducted. The acoustic…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Intonation, Thai, Chinese
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Nguy?n, Anh-Thu T.; Ðào, Ðích M?c – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
This paper examines the intonation of English statements and questions produced by Vietnamese speakers at two differing levels of proficiency. The goal of the study is three-fold: (1) analysing the final tunes and the prosodic structure observed in information-seeking questions, namely Yes-No question, Or-question, Tag-question and Wh-question,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Intonation
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Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine; Rattanasone, Nan Xu – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a "contrastive context" facilitates the identification of a target referent (speeding up processing), whereas focus used…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Prediction
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Li, Man; Dekeyser, Robert – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This study investigated the effects of temporal distribution of practice on the learning and retention of Mandarin tonal word production. Eighty native English-speaking adults with no prior knowledge of a tonal language participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions varying in intersession interval (ISI)…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, English, Native Language
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Shport, Irina A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
The high-variability training paradigm (multiple words, phonetic contexts, and talkers) has been successful for perceptual learning of tone contrasts. Here, it is extended to training native English listeners on Tokyo Japanese pitch-accent contrasts. Participants had no previous experience with lexically contrastive pitch patterns. They learned to…
Descriptors: Japanese, Intonation, Tone Languages, Paralinguistics
Rarrick, Samantha Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While tonal systems have typically been classified as "pitch accent" or "true tonal", there is growing evidence that systems instead have a variety of features which vary across languages, rather than falling into discrete categories. These category labels have been used widely in literature about the languages of New Guinea,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Intonation
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Bryfonski, Lara; Ma, Xue – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The current study investigates the effects of more explicit versus more implicit corrective feedback on beginner Mandarin learners' perception and production of Mandarin tones. The effects of oral corrective feedback have been extensively investigated for various domains of second language acquisition (see Mackey & Goo, 2007). For phonological…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Error Correction
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Wong, Puisan; Leung, Carrie Tsz-Tin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Previous studies reported that children acquire Cantonese tones before 3 years of age, supporting the assumption in models of phonological development that suprasegmental features are acquired rapidly and early in children. Yet, recent research found a large disparity in the age of Cantonese tone acquisition. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception
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