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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
Pittayawat Pittayaporn; Songphan Choemprayong – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Moklen [mkm] is a severely endangered Austronesian language spoken by a sea-based population along the Andaman coast in the southern part of Thailand. As an initial attempt to document this language, we propose a Thai-based orthography of Moklen that not only captures all the phonemic distinctions but also considers the social, political, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
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
Choi, William – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception. Method: The sample contained 124 participants, evenly split into Cantonese musician, Cantonese nonmusician, English musician, and English nonmusician groups. They completed…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Music, Speech, Auditory Perception
Mok, Peggy Pik Ki; Li, Vivian Guo; Fung, Holly Sze Ho – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Previous studies showed both early and late acquisition of Cantonese tones based on transcription data using different criteria, but very little acoustic data were reported. Our study examined Cantonese tone acquisition using both transcription and acoustic data, illustrating the early and protracted aspects of Cantonese tone acquisition.…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages, Phonetics, Language Acquisition
Chen, Hsueh Chu; Han, Qian Wen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
According to the speech learning model [Flege, J. E. (1995). Second language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. In W. Strange (Ed.), "Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research" (pp. 233-277). York Press], learners whose first language (L1) is a tonal language (e.g. Cantonese) can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Sino Tibetan Languages, Mandarin Chinese
Wong, Puisan; Lam, Ka Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Auditory training is important in pedagogical and clinical settings. In search of a more effective perceptual program for training new suprasegmental categories, this study examined the effect of two auditory programs that incorporated five elements that have previously been identified to be effective for training nonnative segmental and…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Training, Program Effectiveness, Sino Tibetan Languages
Chen, Fei; Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang; Peng, Gang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
The conclusions on prosodic pitch features in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have primarily been derived from studies in non-tonal language speakers. This cross-linguistic study evaluated the performance of imitating Cantonese lexical tones and their non-linguistic (nonspeech) counterparts by Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking children with and…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Gwendolyn Hyslop – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Classic typologies within prosody tend to treat 'tone' languages as being diametrically opposed to 'stress' languages. However, Hyman (2006) highlights several languages that can have both, including Seneca, Fasu, and Copala Trique. As language documentation advances and our acoustic methodologies in the field are further refined, we have seen…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
Ma, Estella P.-M.; Tse, Mandy M.-S.; Momenian, Mohammad; Pu, Dai; Chen, Felix F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of dysphonic voice on speech intelligibility in Cantonese-speaking adults. Method: Speech recordings from three speakers with dysphonia secondary to phonotrauma and three speakers with healthy voices were presented to 30 healthy listeners (15 men and 15 women; M[subscript age] = 22.7 years) under…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Trauma, Auditory Stimuli, Intelligibility
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
Mok, Peggy Pik Ki; Fung, Holly Sze Ho; Li, Vivian Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Previous studies showed early production precedes late perception in Cantonese tone acquisition, contrary to the general principle that perception precedes production in child language. How tone production and perception are linked in 1st language acquisition remains largely unknown. Our study revisited the acquisition of tone in…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Acquisition, Perception, Child Language
Mok, Peggy Pik Ki; Lee, Albert – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Previous studies on bilingual children found intact tonal development at the initial stages of interaction between Cantonese and English in successive bilingual children, whereas children exposed to both languages from birth have not been studied in this regard. We examined the production of Cantonese tones by five simultaneous bilingual children…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Tone Languages, Sino Tibetan Languages, English
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
Holt, Colleen M.; Lee, Kathy Y. S.; Dowell, Richard C.; Vogel, Adam P. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess Cantonese word recognition and the discrimination of Cantonese tones with manipulated contours by child and adolescent cochlear implant (CI) users and a group of peers with normal hearing (NH). It was hypothesized that the CI users would perform more poorly than their counterparts with NH in both…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Word Recognition, Children
