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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"lexical tone"”.
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Simply (neuro-)stimulating: The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on phonological and lexical tone learning indexed by behavior and pupillometry
Mandarin lexical tone learning has repeatedly been identified as a difficult linguistic feature for non-native speakers of tonal languages like English, even for native English learners of Mandarin at high proficiencies (e.g., Pelzl et al., 2019b). Sound perception training has been shown to help …
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Audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones.
… focused on audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones. The results of the experiments which employed behavioural and event-related potential measures provided evidence that visual information has an effect on auditory lexical tone perception. First, lexical tone perception benefits from …
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A weighted-constraint model of F0 movements/
… of the phonological representations of tones. In the previous literature, there have been two conflicting views concerning tonal timing: tones are aligned with respect to segments (the Segmental Anchoring Hypothesis) or tones occur at a fixed interval from other tones (the Constant …
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Supralaryngeal Articulator Movements and Laryngeal Control in Mandarin Chinese Tonal Production
… when the jaw was lowered during different lexical tone productions. To serve as a reference database for theoretical and clinical applications, a larger set of data from more participants is recommended.
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Brain plasticity in speech training in native English speakers learning mandarin tones
… English-speaking listeners to perceive Mandarin lexical tones. Behavioral identification and discrimination tasks were conducted using naturally recorded speech, carefully controlled synthetic speech, and non-speech control stimuli. The ERP experiments were conducted with selected synthetic …
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Comparing Human Perception to Computational Classifications of Lexical Tones
… made by a Hidden Markov Model that simulates tone perception and categorization. The computational model tested the categorization of stimuli taken from both citation and continuous contexts of Thai tonal data, in order to compare the performance of the computational model on both clear and …
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Non-native perception, production, and lexical processing of tone
… adults differ in the ease with which they learn tone in a non-native language. I examine the extent to which individual variability in tone learning facility depends on factors attributable to a learner’s first language, namely the function of pitch for lexical distinctions (‘L1 tonal status’) …
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A Phonological Study of the Tegem Language
… in meaning distinction. The study is based on lexical items collected from two Tegem language speakers via wordlists elicitation sessions. That provides the core basis for a detailed foundational description of the phonetic and phonological features of consonants, consonant sequences, vowels, …
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Aspects of Tone and Voice in Phuthi
… in a formal phonological analysis of the tone patterns found in Phuthi, a Bantu language. The focus of the work is Phuthi high tone (H), and its interaction with tonal 'depression domains', often triggered by breathy voiced segments, which condition low tone within the lexical phonology. …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
… in these children, namely vowels, consonants, lexical tone and phonological processes; 2) contrast Setswana phonological development in monolingual vs multilingual children; and 3) contrast typical vs atypical Setswana speech acquisition and determine the occurrence and nature of speech sound …
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SENSITIVITY TO VOWEL, CONSONANT AND TONE VARIATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: EVIDENCE FROM 6-YEAR-OLD MANDARIN MONOLINGUALS AND ENGLISH-MANDARIN BILINGUALS
Although tone language learners represent the linguistic majority, much less is known about how tones are integrated into lexical representations in comparison to more typically studied vowels and consonants. Most of the previous work investigating lexical processing in tone language learners has …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
Tone learning is challenging for non-tone speakers. While pitch, like melody, is processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal …
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A Comparison of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin Tone Register: An Acoustic Analysis of Three Native Speech Styles
… study investigated the possibility of pitch and tone register differences between native speakers of Taiwan and Beijing Mandarin by means of an acoustic analysis of three speech styles. Speech styles included spontaneous interview, spontaneous descriptive, and controlled read sentential speech. …