A Wedel, A Kaplan, S Jackson - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
For nearly a century, linguists have suggested that diachronic merger is less likely between phonemes with a high functional load–that is, phonemes that distinguish many words in the …
ECH Wong, MN Wong, S Chen, JYW Lin - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Literature on apraxia of speech (AOS) in Chinese speakers is sparse compared to the English literature. This study aims to examine the pitch variation skills of Cantonese …
K Chui, H Lai - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 - search.ebscohost.com
In Taiwan, most people speak Mandarin, Southern Min, or Hakka. Not only are the three Chinese dialects undergoing linguistic changes, but the population of Southern Min and …
Despite being spoken by a large population of speakers worldwide, Cantonese is under- resourced in terms of the data scale and diversity compared to other major languages. This …
ECH Wong, MN Wong, SL Velleman - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Pitch variations (tone productions) have been reported as a measure to differentiate Cantonese-speaking children with and without childhood apraxia of speech …
JP Kirby, ACL Yu - Proceedings of the International congress of the …, 2007 - icphs2007.de
This paper reports the results of a wordlikeness task designed to investigate Cantonese speakers' phonotactic knowledge of systematic and accidental gaps. Regression analyses …
MT Leung, SP Law, SY Fung - Behavior research methods, instruments, & …, 2004 - Springer
This article reports, for the first time, type and token frequencies of tones, onsets, codas, rimes, and syllables of Hong Kong Cantonese. The information is derived from a …
APH Kong, SP Law - Behavior research methods, 2019 - Springer
This article reports the construction of a multimodal annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by native healthy speakers of Cantonese and individuals with …