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Chung, Wei-Lun; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Cross-linguistic studies have reported that prosodic pattern awareness (e.g., lexical stress and lexical tone) is more important to reading acquisition than phonological awareness. However, few longitudinal studies have been conducted to explore the relations between these variables. This study examined preschoolers' pitch discrimination, prosodic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study examined language-specific links among auditory processing, linguistic prosody awareness, and Mandarin (L1) and English (L2) word reading in 61 Mandarin-speaking, English-learning children. Three auditory discrimination abilities were measured: pitch contour, pitch interval, and rise time (rate of intensity change at tone onset).…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Discrimination