Production and perception of a sound change in progress: Tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese

PPK Mok, D Zuo, PWY Wong - Language variation and change, 2013 - cambridge.org
Cantonese has six lexical tones (T), but some tone pairs appear to be merging: T2 [25] vs.
T5 [23], T3 [33] vs. T6 [22], and T4 [21] vs. T6 [22]. Twenty-eight merging participants and …

Development of the Cantonese hearing in noise test (CHINT)

LLN Wong, SD Soli - Ear and hearing, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To develop a Cantonese version of the Hearing In Noise Test (CHINT) with the
same features as the English Hearing In Noise Test (HINT)(Nilsson, Soli, & Sullivan, 1994) …

Do syllable-specific tonal probabilities guide lexical access? Evidence from Mandarin, Shanghai and Cantonese speakers

S Wiener, K Ito - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
An eye-tracking study investigated how the interaction between syllable frequency and
syllable-specific tonal probability guides online lexical access in speakers of mutually …

[HTML][HTML] Musicians show enhanced perception, but not production, of native lexical tones

JH Ong, P Wong, F Liu - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Many studies have reported a musical advantage in perceiving lexical tones among non-
native listeners, but it is unclear whether this advantage also applies to native listeners, who …

[HTML][HTML] Tone slips in Cantonese: Evidence for early phonological encoding

J Alderete, Q Chan, HH Yeung - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
This article examines speech errors in Cantonese with the aim of fleshing out a larger
speech production architecture for encoding phonological tone. A corpus was created by …

Development of tonal discrimination in young heritage speakers of Cantonese

RTY Kan, MS Schmid - Journal of Phonetics, 2019 - Elsevier
This study uses the Perceptual Assimilation Model for Suprasegmentals (PAM-S)(So & Best,
2008, 2010), supported by the assumptions of the L2 Intonation Learning theory (LILt …

Sublexical frequency measures for orthographic and phonological units in German

MJ Hofmann, P Stenneken, M Conrad… - Behavior Research …, 2007 - Springer
Many recent studies have demonstrated the influence of sublexical frequency measures on
language processing, or called for controlling sublexical measures when selecting stimulus …

Cantonese AphasiaBank: An annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by healthy and language-impaired native Cantonese speakers

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Working with CHAT transcripts in Python

JL Lee, R Burkholder, GB Flinn… - Department of Computer …, 2016 - researchgate.net
This report introduces the Python library PyLangAcq for working with CHAT transcription
data in Python. The library interfaces with speech data transcribed in the CHAT format …

Are tones in the expressive lexicon iconic? Evidence from three Chinese languages

AL Thompson - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in the literature have focused on sketching phonosemantic mappings of
imitative or iconic utterances by relying on vowels and consonants, leaving the …