Children's linguistic knowledge and the learning mechanisms by which they acquire it grow
substantially in infancy and toddlerhood, yet theories of word learning largely fail to …

Atypical voice quality has been reported among children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD). Yet, it is unclear which acoustic parameters played a crucial role in discriminating the …

The conclusions on prosodic pitch features in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have
primarily been derived from studies in non-tonal language speakers. This cross-linguistic …

Purpose Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in acquiring tonal languages,
as CIs do not efficiently code pitch information. Mandarin is a tonal language with lexical …

This study investigated the developmental trajectories of categorical perception (CP) of
segments (ie, stops) and suprasegments (ie, lexical tones) in an attempt to examine the …

Phonological processes can pose a learning challenge for children, where the surface form
for an underlying contrast may vary as a function of the phonological environment. Mandarin …

Introduction Atypical prosodic features have been widely reported in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), primarily in non-tonal language speakers. Nevertheless, the prosodic …

This study examines the tone productions of school-aged children with and without a tonal
language background who are learning Mandarin as a second language (L2) or heritage …

This study investigates the developmental performance of disyllabic tones in
Mandarinspeaking preschoolers (aged 3-6) and child-directed speech (CDS). Comparing …

This study addresses child language acquisition in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana
with about 8,100,000 first language speakers (Simon and Fennig, 2018). Although Akan is …