Publication Date
| In 2025 | 3 |
| Since 2024 | 18 |
Descriptor
| Tone Languages | 18 |
| Mandarin Chinese | 14 |
| Intonation | 11 |
| Foreign Countries | 7 |
| Auditory Perception | 5 |
| Second Language Learning | 5 |
| Children | 4 |
| Phonology | 4 |
| Second Language Instruction | 4 |
| Suprasegmentals | 4 |
| English | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Hongwei Ding | 3 |
| Feng-Ming Tsao | 2 |
| Ting Wang | 2 |
| Yu Chen | 2 |
| Alexis Zhou | 1 |
| Amber Briana Camp | 1 |
| Angeline Tsui | 1 |
| Anne Marte Haug Olstad | 1 |
| Anthony Picaud | 1 |
| Antonia Götz | 1 |
| Barbara Höhle | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 14 |
| Reports - Research | 13 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 4 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Early Childhood Education | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Grade 1 | 1 |
| Grade 3 | 1 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
| Primary Education | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 2 |
| Autism Diagnostic Observation… | 1 |
| Raven Progressive Matrices | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkXi Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mandarin is a tone language that is spoken by billions of people in the world. Despite huge demand, there is a lack of assessment and treatment tools targeting Mandarin speakers with communication disorders. To better understand the speech profile of Mandarin speakers with communication disorders, this dissertation first examined contrastive…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Communication Disorders
Peer reviewedMarina Kalashnikova; Leher Singh; Angeline Tsui; Eylem Altuntas; Denis Burnham; Ryan Cannistraci; Ng Bee Chin; Ye Feng; Laura Fernández-Merino; Antonia Götz; Lisa Gustavsson; Jessica Hay; Barbara Höhle; René Kager; Regine Lai; Liquan Liu; Ellen Marklund; Thierry Nazzi; Daniela Santos Oliveira; Anne Marte Haug Olstad; Anthony Picaud; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Feng-Ming Tsao; Patrick C. M. Wong; Pei Jun Woo – Developmental Science, 2024
We report the findings of a multi-language and multi-lab investigation of young infants' ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language experience, as well as of tone properties. Given the high prevalence of lexical tones across human languages, understanding lexical tone acquisition is fundamental…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Li Wang; Peter Q. Pfordresher; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Vocal imitation in English-speaking autistic individuals has been shown to be atypical. Speaking a tone language such as Mandarin facilitates vocal imitation skills among non-autistic individuals, yet no studies have examined whether this effect holds for autistic individuals. To address this question, we compared vocal imitation of speech and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Singing, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Imitation
Yu Chen; Ting Wang; Enze Tang; Hongwei Ding – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Neurotypical individuals show a robust "global precedence effect (GPE)" when processing hierarchically structured visual information. However, the auditory domain remains understudied. The current research serves to fill the knowledge gap on auditory global-local processing across the broader autism phenotype under the tonal…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Attention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mandarin Chinese
Lirong Tang; Yangxiaoxue Xu; Shiting Yang; Xiangyun Meng; Boqi Du; Chen Sun; Li Liu; Qi Dong; Yun Nan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of musical pitch processing. Its linguistic consequences have been examined separately for speech intonations and lexical tones. However, in a tonal language such as Chinese, the processing of intonations and lexical tones interacts with each other during online speech perception. Whether and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation
Yin-To Chui; Zhen Qin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Previous studies have reported the success of distributional learning for adult speakers across segmental and suprasegmental categories immediately after training. On the other hand, second language (L2) perception models posit that the ease with which learners perceive a nonnative speech contrast depends on the perceptual mapping between…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Processes, Intonation
Hao Zhang; Xuequn Dai; Wen Ma; Hongwei Ding; Yang Zhang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study builds upon an established effective training method to investigate the advantages of high variability phonetic identification training for enhancing lexical tone perception and production in Mandarin-speaking pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients, who typically face ongoing challenges in these areas. Method: Thirty-two…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Phonetics, Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries
Chen Kuang; Xiaoxiang Chen; Fei Chen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Age, babble noise, and working memory have been found to affect the recognition of emotional prosody based on non-tonal languages, yet little is known about how exactly they influence tone-language-speaking children's recognition of emotional prosody. In virtue of the tectonic theory of Stroop effects and the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU)…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
Yu Chen; Ting Wang; Hongwei Ding – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Categorical perception (CP) manifests in various aspects of human cognition. While there is mounting evidence for CP in facial emotions, CP in vocal emotions remains understudied. The current study attempted to test whether individuals with a tonal language background perceive vocal emotions categorically and to examine how factors such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
Alexis Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Suprasegmental features (i.e., features realized through pitch, volume, and/or duration changes) are particularly difficult for second language learners. This has led to the creation of many different methods of training, often employing the use of experimenter or instructor-created training materials. However, the use of authentic materials for…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Second Language Instruction
Amber Briana Camp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
F0 contours convey multiple types of information, including lexical and post-lexical meanings, as well as affective and socio-indexical indicators. This dissertation investigates the interaction between lexical tone and sentence-level intonation in Thai, focusing on how sentence position influences the acoustic realization and perceptual…
Descriptors: Thai, Tone Languages, Intonation, Sentence Structure
Pittayawat Pittayaporn; Songphan Choemprayong – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Moklen [mkm] is a severely endangered Austronesian language spoken by a sea-based population along the Andaman coast in the southern part of Thailand. As an initial attempt to document this language, we propose a Thai-based orthography of Moklen that not only captures all the phonemic distinctions but also considers the social, political, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Sino Tibetan Languages, Tone Languages
Julia H. Howe; Erica S. Baumgartner – Review of Education, 2024
This literature review explores the impact of music on tonal language learning, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Utilising searches across major databases such as ERIC (EBSCO), ProQuest Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science from 2005 to 2024, we selected relevant peer-reviewed English-language articles examining music's role in aiding tone…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Mandarin Chinese, Music, Second Language Learning
Youran Lin; Karen E. Pollock; Fangfang Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigates how Mandarin-English bilingual students in Canada produce Mandarin tones and how this is influenced by factors such as tone complexity, cross-linguistic influences, and speech input. Method: Participants were 82 students enrolled in a Chinese bilingual program in Western Canada. Students were recruited from Grades…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Elementary School Students
Luke West – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dynamic visuospatial support (DVS) is an effective tool for helping people learn linguistic tones (Hannah et al., 2017, Morett et al., 2022, Zhen et al., 2019), and learn words with these tonal categories (Baills et al., 2019, Morett et al., 2015). Progress in the field of embodied cognition and learning has led to recent emphasis on the pitch…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Phonology
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2
