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Direct linkOng, Jia Hoong; Burnham, Denis; Escudero, Paola; Stevens, Catherine J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Evidence suggests that extensive experience with lexical tones or musical training provides an advantage in perceiving nonnative lexical tones. This investigation concerns whether such an advantage is evident in learning nonnative lexical tones based on the distributional structure of the input. Method: Using an established protocol,…
Descriptors: Music, Acoustics, Intonation, Tone Languages
Pinyin Invented Spelling in Mandarin Chinese-Speaking Children with and without Reading Difficulties
Ding, Yi; Liu, Ru-De; McBride, Catherine; Zhang, Dake – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This study examined analytical pinyin (a phonological coding system for teaching pronunciation and lexical tones of Chinese characters) skills in 54 Mandarin-speaking fourth graders by using an invented spelling instrument that tapped into syllable awareness, phoneme awareness, lexical tones, and tone sandhi in Chinese. Pinyin invented spelling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Intelligence Tests
Saito, Kazuya; Wu, Xianghua – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
The current study examined how form-focused instruction (FFI) with and without corrective feedback (CF) as output enhancement facilitated second language (L2) perception of Mandarin tones at both the phonetic and phonological levels by 41 Cantonese learners of Mandarin. Two experimental groups, FFI only and FFI-CF, received a 90-min FFI treatment…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
