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Acquisition of lexical tones in three-year-old Mandarin-speaking children |
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Puisan Wong - The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
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Richard G. Schwartz - The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
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James J. Jenkins - The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
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2004 |
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| - Cross Linguistic Comparison |
| - Language Acquisition |
| - Speech Perception |
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Thirteen monolingual Mandarin-speaking children from New York were recruited to examine their perception and production of the four Mandarin lexical tones in monosyllabic words in isolation and in sentence final position. Tone perception and tone production were examined using a picture pointing task and a picture naming activity. To compare children’s productions with target adult forms, four mothers’ child-directed productions of the same words were recorded. The adults’ and children’s productions were low-pass filtered to eliminate phonemic and semantic information and ten Mandarin-speaking judges categorized the adults’ and children’s filtered productions. None of the four tones produced by the children was adult-like and the dipping tone was least well identified. However, the children perceived the four lexical tones with high accuracy, showing that perceptual development precedes production mastery. |
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