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Padayodi, Cecile Mamalinani – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to illustrate some phonetic aspects of segments and tone. Data were elicited through three speech styles--wordlists, short phrases,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonemics
Nan, Yun; Sun, Yanan; Peretz, Isabelle – Brain, 2010
Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that affects the processing of musical pitch in speakers of non-tonal languages like English and French. We assessed whether this musical disorder exists among speakers of Mandarin Chinese who use pitch to alter the meaning of words. Using the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia, we tested 117…
Descriptors: Music, Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Disabilities
Alexander, Jennifer Alexandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Lexical-tone languages use fundamental frequency (F0/pitch) to convey word meaning. About 41.8% of the world's languages use lexical tone (Maddieson, 2008), yet those systems are under-studied. I aim to increase our understanding of speech-sound inventory organization by extending to tone-systems a model of vowel-system organization, the Theory of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Semantics, Thai, Mandarin Chinese
Skidmore, David; Murakami, Kyoko – International Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Prosody refers to features of speech such as intonation, volume and pace. In this paper, we examine teacher-student dialogue in an English lesson at a secondary school in England, using Conversation Analysis notation to mark features of prosody. We also make connections with Goffman's theoretical concept of footing. We show that, within an episode…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Intonation, Poetry
Liu, Ying; Wang, Min; Perfetti, Charles A.; Brubaker, Brian; Wu, Sumei; MacWhinney, Brian – Language Learning, 2011
Learning the Chinese tone system is a major challenge to students of Chinese as a second or foreign language. Part of the problem is that the spoken Chinese syllable presents a complex perceptual input that overlaps tone with segments. This complexity can be addressed through directing attention to the critical features of a component (tone in…
Descriptors: College Students, Spelling, Computer Interfaces, Mandarin Chinese
Krishnan, Ananthanarayan; Gandour, Jackson T. – Brain and Language, 2009
Historically, the brainstem has been neglected as a part of the brain involved in language processing. We review recent evidence of language-dependent effects in pitch processing based on comparisons of native vs. nonnative speakers of a tonal language from electrophysiological recordings in the auditory brainstem. We argue that there is enhancing…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Brain, Language Processing, Native Speakers
Mattock, Karen; Molnar, Monika; Polka, Linda; Burn, Denis – Cognition, 2008
Perceptual reorganisation of infants' speech perception has been found from 6 months for consonants and earlier for vowels. Recently, similar reorganisation has been found for lexical tone between 6 and 9 months of age. Given that there is a close relationship between vowels and tones, this study investigates whether the perceptual reorganisation…
Descriptors: Vowels, Tone Languages, Infants, Auditory Perception
Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
Yang, Bei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The current study lays the groundwork for a model of Mandarin tones based on both native speakers' and non-native speakers' perception and production. It demonstrates that there is variability in non-native speakers' tone productions and that there are differences in the perceptual boundaries in native speakers and non-native speakers. There…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Mandarin Chinese, Acoustics
Chen, Xi; Ku, Yu-Min; Koyama, Emiko; Anderson, Richard C.; Li, Wenling – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
This study investigated the phonological awareness of 219 first, second, and fourth grade Cantonese-speaking children from the south of China, who received immersion Mandarin instruction beginning in the first grade. Children received onset, rime and tone awareness tasks in Cantonese and Mandarin. Children performed better on the Cantonese onset…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Rhyme, Factor Analysis
So, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naive Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their performance on an identification task, following a brief familiarization task, was analyzed in terms of tonal sensitivities (A-prime scores on correct identifications) and tonal errors…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Zsiga, Elizabeth; Nitisaroj, Rattima – Language and Speech, 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between the phonological features of tone and tone perception in Thai. Specifically, it tests the hypothesis (proposed by Moren & Zsiga, 2006) that the principle perceptual cues to the five-way tonal contrast in Thai are high and low pitch targets aligned to moras. Results of four perception studies, one…
Descriptors: Cues, Tone Languages, Thai, Intonation
Shu, Hua; Peng, Hong; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Developmental Science, 2008
Two studies explored the nature of phonological awareness (PA) in Chinese. In Study 1, involving 146 children, awareness of phoneme onset did not differ from chance levels at ages 3-5 years in preschool but increased to 70% correct in first grade, when children first received phonological coding (Pinyin) instruction. Similarly, tone awareness was…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonological Awareness, Coding, Grade 1
Liu, Huei-Mei; Tsao, Feng-Ming; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Using Mandarin Chinese, a "tone language" in which the pitch contours of syllables differentiate words, the authors examined the acoustic modifications of infant-directed speech (IDS) at the syllable level to test 2 hypotheses: (a) the overall increase in pitch and intonation contour that occurs in IDS at the phrase level would not distort…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Syllables, Mandarin Chinese
Whitehill, Tara L.; Wong, Lina L. -N. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of intensive voice therapy on Cantonese speakers with Parkinson's disease. The effect of the treatment on lexical tone was of particular interest. Four Cantonese speakers with idiopathic Parkinson's disease received treatment based on the principles of Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT).…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Intonation, Tone Languages, Diseases