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Vihman, Marilyn May; Ota, Mitsuhiko; Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Choo, Rui Qi; Lou, Shanshan – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Phonological models of early word learning often assume that child forms can be understood as structural mappings from their adult targets. In contrast, the whole-word phonology model suggests that on beginning word production children represent adult targets as holistic units, reflecting not the exact sound sequence but only the most perceptually…
Descriptors: Phonology, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics
Wang, Tianlin; Potter, Christine E.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Adults typically struggle to perceive non-native sound contrasts, especially those that conflict with their first language. Do the same challenges persist when the sound contrasts overlap but do not conflict? To address this question, we explored the acquisition of lexical tones. While tonal variations are present in many languages, they are only…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Auditory Perception, Intonation
Lee, Chia-Cheng; Jhang, Yuna; Chen, Li-mei; Relyea, George; Oller, D. Kimbrough – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Prior research on ambient-language effects in babbling has often suggested infants produce language-specific phonological features within the first year. These results have been questioned in research failing to find such effects and challenging the positive findings on methodological grounds. We studied English- and Chinese-learning infants at 8,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Phonology, Foreign Countries
Graf Estes, Katharine; Gluck, Stephanie Chen-Wu; Bastos, Carolina – Language Learning and Development, 2015
The present experiments investigated the flexibility of statistical word segmentation. There is ample evidence that infants can use statistical cues (e.g., syllable transitional probabilities) to segment fluent speech. However, it is unclear how effectively infants track these patterns in unfamiliar phonological systems. We examined whether…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Languages, Cues, Syllables
Au, Terry Kit-fong – Language Learning and Development, 2013
Children cannot learn to speak a language simply from occasional noninteractive exposure to native speakers' input (e.g., by hearing television dialogues), but can they learn something about its phonology? To answer this question, the present study varied ambient hearing experience for 126 5- to 7-year-old native Cantonese-Chinese speakers…
Descriptors: Singing, Linguistic Input, Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages