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Lee, Albert; Li, Xiaolin; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2023
This article revisits Lee and Mok (2018) and examines how the Cantonese learners in the study produced second language (L2) Japanese short vs. long consonants which are absent in their first language (L1). Specifically, our goal is to find out whether these learners were substituting real geminates (i.e. long consonants) with the improvised…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Japanese, Speech Communication, Phrase Structure
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Lee, Albert; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2018
This article explores the acquisition of Japanese vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese learners. Our goal is to examine whether transfer from first language (L1) is possible when L1 experience is phonemic but restricted to a small set of sounds (short vs. long vowels) and when the experience is non-phonemic, derived only at morpheme…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Sino Tibetan Languages
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To, Carol K. S.; Cheung, Pamela S. P.; McLeod, Sharynne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: This study investigated children's acquisition of Hong Kong Cantonese. Method: Participants were 1,726 children ages 2;4 to 12;4 (years;months). Single-word speech samples were collected to examine 4 measures: initial consonants, final consonants, vowels/diphthongs, and lexical tones. A 2-way analysis of variance was performed to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages
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McDowell, Heather J.; Lorch, Marjorie Perlman – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
The current study investigates the phonemic awareness and nonword processing of English as a foreign language students from Hong Kong and Mainland China, with reference to factors considered the main facilitators of phonemic awareness: written language experience, spoken language experience, and metalinguistic training. The Mainland Chinese…
Descriptors: Phonology, Metalinguistics, Written Language, Oral Language