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Article: Perceptual evidence for protracted development in monosyllabic Mandarin lexical tone production in preschool children in Taiwan
Title | Perceptual evidence for protracted development in monosyllabic Mandarin lexical tone production in preschool children in Taiwan |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Speech |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Acoustical Society of America. The Journal's web site is located at https://asa.scitation.org/journal/jas |
Citation | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013, v. 133 n. 1, p. 434-443 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study used the same methodology in Wong [J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 55, 1423–1437 (2012b)] to examine the perceived accuracy of monosyllabic Mandarin tones produced by 4- and 5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children growing up in Taiwan and combined the findings with those of 3-year-olds reported in Wong [J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 55, 1423–1437 (2012b)] to track the development of monosyllabic tone production in preschool children. Tone productions of adults and children were collected in a picture naming task and low-pass filtered to remove lexical information and reserve tone information. Five native-speakers categorized the target tones in the filtered productions. Children's tone accuracy was compared to adults' to determine mastery and developmental changes. The results showed that preschool children in Taiwan have not fully mastered the production of monosyllabic Mandarin tones. None of the tones produced by the children in the three age groups reached adult-like accuracy. Little developmental change was found in children's tone accuracy during the preschool years. A similar order of accuracy of the tones was observed across the three age groups and the order appeared to follow the order of articulatory complexity in producing the tones. The findings suggest a protracted course of development in children's acquisition of Mandarin tones and that tone development may be constrained by physiological factors. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192207 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.687 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, P | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-23T09:28:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-23T09:28:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013, v. 133 n. 1, p. 434-443 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-4966 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192207 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study used the same methodology in Wong [J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 55, 1423–1437 (2012b)] to examine the perceived accuracy of monosyllabic Mandarin tones produced by 4- and 5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children growing up in Taiwan and combined the findings with those of 3-year-olds reported in Wong [J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 55, 1423–1437 (2012b)] to track the development of monosyllabic tone production in preschool children. Tone productions of adults and children were collected in a picture naming task and low-pass filtered to remove lexical information and reserve tone information. Five native-speakers categorized the target tones in the filtered productions. Children's tone accuracy was compared to adults' to determine mastery and developmental changes. The results showed that preschool children in Taiwan have not fully mastered the production of monosyllabic Mandarin tones. None of the tones produced by the children in the three age groups reached adult-like accuracy. Little developmental change was found in children's tone accuracy during the preschool years. A similar order of accuracy of the tones was observed across the three age groups and the order appeared to follow the order of articulatory complexity in producing the tones. The findings suggest a protracted course of development in children's acquisition of Mandarin tones and that tone development may be constrained by physiological factors. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Acoustical Society of America. The Journal's web site is located at https://asa.scitation.org/journal/jas | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright 2013 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013, v. 133 n. 1, p. 434-443 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4768883 | - |
dc.subject | Speech | - |
dc.title | Perceptual evidence for protracted development in monosyllabic Mandarin lexical tone production in preschool children in Taiwan | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1121/1.4768883 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 23297915 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84872080063 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 230606 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 133 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 434 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 443 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000313034700051 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0001-4966 | - |