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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
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
Amber Briana Camp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
F0 contours convey multiple types of information, including lexical and post-lexical meanings, as well as affective and socio-indexical indicators. This dissertation investigates the interaction between lexical tone and sentence-level intonation in Thai, focusing on how sentence position influences the acoustic realization and perceptual…
Descriptors: Thai, Tone Languages, Intonation, Sentence Structure
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
Ning, Li-Hsin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Our audio--vocal system involves a negative feedback system that functions to correct for fundamental frequency (f[subscript 0]) errors in production. Therefore, automatic and opposing responses appear when an unexpected change in voice pitch is present in auditory feedback. This study explores following responses to pitch perturbation in…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Feedback (Response), Intonation, Foreign Countries
Zhu, Jiaqiang; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Chen, Fei; Zhang, Caicai; Shao, Jing; Wiener, Seth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Previous studies have shown that individuals with congenital amusia exhibit deficient pitch processing across music and language domains. This study investigated whether adult Chinese-speaking listeners with amusia were still able to learn Thai lexical tones based on stimulus frequency of statistical distribution via distributional…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Perceptual Impairments
Nguyen, Duc Minh; Lee, Sue Ann S.; Hayakawa, Toko; Yamamoto, Masahiko; Natsume, Nagato – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to examine normative nasalance values in Vietnamese adult speakers with Southern dialect and to investigate the effects of vowels and tones on . Previous studies examining nasalance have been mainly conducted with Indo-European languages. Limited information on nasalance is available in tone languages…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Vietnamese People, Dialects, Intonation
Lau, Joseph C. Y.; To, Carol K. S.; Kwan, Judy S. K.; Kang, Xin; Losh, Molly; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Atypical pitch processing is a feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which affects non-tone language speakers' communication. Lifelong auditory experience has been demonstrated to modify genetically-predisposed risks for pitch processing. We examined individuals with ASD to test the hypothesis that lifelong auditory experience in tone…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intonation, Auditory Perception
Shang, Nan; Styles, Suzy J. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous studies have shown that Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers exhibit different patterns of cross-modal congruence for the lexical tones of Mandarin Chinese, depending on which features of the pitch they attend to. But is this pattern of language-specific listening a conscious cultural strategy or an automatic processing effect? If…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language
