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The Perception of Cantonese Vowel Length Contrast by Mandarin ...


Tonal effects on perceived vowel duration - The University of Chicago

(i.e. low, high and rising) but no phonemic vowel length contrast. ... In the history of Cantonese, vowel length correlates with a tonal split in the Cantonese ...

A preliminary study on Cantonese vowel development by young ...

The study investigates the perception of vowel length contrasts in Cantonese by native Mandarin speakers with varying degrees of experience in Cantonese: naïve ...

Incongruent visual cues affect the perception of Mandarin vowel but ...

We found that, for both Chinese and English speakers, incongruence between auditory and visemic mouth shape (i.e., visual form information) significantly ...

Tonal effects on perceived vowel duration Alan C. L. Yu

Middle Korean had three lexical tones (i.e. low, high and rising) but no phonemic vowel length contrast. ... Influence of tones upon vowel duration in Cantonese.

Spectral and Temporal Features of Tense-Lax Vowel Contrast

... contrast are in agreement with the study reported by Chen (2006) who found out that vowel produced by Mandarin was perceived as. “different” with the ...

Contrast in Cantonese Vowels - University of Toronto

Mandarin, there are no toneless syllables in Cantonese. ... As Table 7 shows, the choice of [ATR] over length as the relevant contrast is not crucial.

evidence from the perception of Mandarin high vowels by native ...

The findings of the study suggest that native English speakers adopt a perceptual strategy that differs from that of native Japanese and Korean ...

Comparison of native versus nonnative perception of vowel length ...

Figure 1 shows listeners' discrimination accuracy for the Arabic and Japanese vowel length contrasts. It can be clearly seen in Figure 1 that both NA and NJ ...

CROSS-LANGUAGE TONE PERCEPTION - NYU Arts & Science

Tone perception in Cantonese and Mandarin: A cross-linguistic comparison. ... A cross‐language comparison of vowel perception in English‐ learning and German‐ ...

The role of abstraction in non-native speech perception - MIT

An overall 4×3 ANOVA with the factors LANGUAGE (Korean,. Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin) and CONTRAST (length ... Vowel length perception in Cantonese. In ...

Modified Input Training and Cue Reweighting in Second Language ...

Clearly, the second language learners of English coming from L1 Mandarin will have to acquire a tense/lax vowel contrast. 2.2 L2 speech perception. In the field ...

Running head: LINGUISTIC TONE PERCEPTION IN INFANCY

Keywords: tone, infancy, speech perception, English, Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin ... Tsao (2008) showed that the perception of Mandarin tone contrasts in 10- to ...

Vowel length - Wikipedia

It also plays a lesser phonetic role in Cantonese, unlike in other varieties of Chinese, which do not have phonemic vowel length distinctions. Many languages do ...

Tone and vowel disruptions in Mandarin aphasia and apraxia of ...

Native Mandarin listeners seemed to be more tolerant of less well-targeted tones than less-well targeted vowels. The clinical implication is that tonal and ...

Acquisition of Japanese quantity contrasts by L1 Cantonese speakers

lated stimuli showed that Cantonese learners perceived Japanese vowel lengths only ... [Perception of Japanese long vowels by speakers of Mandarin]. Tohoku ...

Cross-Language Perception of Lexical Tones by Nordic Learners of ...

Additionally, the study found that the presence of length contrast, a prosodic feature in the learners' native languages, significantly influences their ...

English Vowel Discrimination and Assimilation by Chinese ...

Recent second/foreign language research of vowel perception is also discussed. 2.1 Phonological comparison among English and Mandarin vowels. According to ...

Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese ...

To test the generalizability of this relationship, this study compares community- and individual-level variation across three long-standing ...

Dissertations in - OSU Linguistics - The Ohio State University

A tonal split that is synchronically conditioned by vowel duration has occurred in Standard Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken primarily in. Guangdong ...

vowel length contrasts: Topics by Science.gov

... the perception of Japanese vowel length contrasts ... Mandarin listeners, but with different patterns for behavioral perception and neural discrimination.