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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"tone discrimination"”.
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The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
… tonal language and music experience on auditory discrimination by employing tone and vowel discrimination tasks. A total number of 8,769 observations were analyzed using logistic regression to answer the following questions: (1) Do vowel and tone discrimination abilities correlate with language …
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Development of Cantonese as a heritage language in children: Experiments in phonology and morphosyntax
This dissertation examines the development of Cantonese in young heritage speakers (age of testing 3;10–12;3) in New York City. These heritage speakers were raised speaking predominantly Cantonese at home, but were exposed to English (the majority language) from a young age. The research …
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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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Cognitive Differentiation of Schizophrenia and Depression
… depressives, and controls performed a tone discrimination task, in which subjects counted or ignored tones. Evidence of memory abnormalities emerged as a function of diagnosis and stimulus sequence. All three groups showed intact auditory sensory memory, with comparable amplitudes and …
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Understanding skin colour: Exploring colourism and its articulation among black and coloured students
… targets of racism, but also perpetrators of skin tone discrimination among their own racial group. The main objective of this study was twofold: to enquire about the existence of colourism, and to determine how it may possibly articulate itself as an everyday phenomenon among students. A sample of …
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Assessment of Basotho women's perceptions of the health risks associated with skin-lightening in Lesotho using the Health Belief Model
… factors such as age, marital status, skin tone classification, and education level had no significant role in women's decision to practice skin-lightening. Fifty-two percent of participating women, from all skin tone categories, claimed to have used SLPs. The most common motivations for …
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Independent Component Analysis of Event-Related Electroencephalography During Speech and Non-Speech Discrimination: : Implications for the Sensorimotor ∆∞ Rhythm in Speech Processing
… with significant differences between correct discrimination trials and those discriminated at chance levels.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> The current study employed millisecond temporal resolution EEG to measure ongoing decreases and increases in spectral power (event-related spectral …
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Effects of Hearing Experience, Music Training and Spectral-Temporal Processing on Music and Speech Perception in Adult Cochlear Implant Users
… CI users, exploring the mechanisms behind chord discrimination abilities and their relation to speech-in-noise perception. The first study, experiment 1 (chapter 2) used questionnaires to collect details of an individuals’ background characteristics for hearing experiences and music-listening …