Monosyllabic tones in child-directed and adult-directed Cantonese tones
Grant Data
Project Title
Monosyllabic tones in child-directed and adult-directed Cantonese tones
Principal Investigator
Dr Wong, Puisan
(Principal Investigator (PI))
Duration
36
Start Date
2016-01-01
Amount
646677
Conference Title
Monosyllabic tones in child-directed and adult-directed Cantonese tones
Presentation Title
Keywords
acoustic phonetics, lexical tones, speech perception production, speech science
Discipline
Language Development, Second Language Acquisition, Audiology
Panel
Humanities & Social Sciences (H)
HKU Project Code
17603815
Grant Type
General Research Fund (GRF)
Funding Year
2015
Status
Completed
Objectives
1) To characterize the acoustic characteristics of child-directed Cantonese tones; 2) To examine the developmental differences in child-directed Cantonese tones; 3) To test the acoustic cue hypothesis and the pragmatic hypothesis of child-directed speech.