The phonological acquisition of Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese)

Hua, Zhu; Dodd, Barbara

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“…Another interesting question is at what age tone language learners start to split their native lexical tones as opposed to pitch in musical contexts. It seems that the acquisition of lexical tones continues until at least early childhood (Hua & Dodd, 2000). Within the early years of life, when and how lexical tones are split from other types of pitch needs further investigation.…”

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Chen

Liu

Kager

2016

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The current study explores how language experience may shape the correlation between lexical tone and musical pitch perception. A two domains (music and lexical tone) by two languages (tone, Mandarin Chinese and non-tone, Dutch) design is adopted. Participants were tested on their discrimination of Mandarin Chinese lexical tones, Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), and Musical Ear Test (MET). The Chinese listeners outperformed the Dutch listeners on both MBEA and MET, but had comparable accuracies for the lexical tone discrimination. Importantly, a significant cross-domain correlation was only observed for the Dutch listeners but not for the Chinese listeners. For tone language listeners, once lexical tones have been acquired, native listeners perceive them as phonological categories, and split them from other pitch variations that do not play a phonemic role. Non-tone language listeners, on the other hand, perceive both lexical tones and musical pitch on a psycho-acoustical basis, hence exhibit a unified perception of pitch across the two domains.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Chen

Liu

Kager

2016

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Phonological processes: normally occurring simplification processes (errors) used by children during the process of speech development (Hua & Dodd, 2000).…”

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“…Cross-sectional studies (e.g. Hua & Dodd, 2000;Mowrer & Burger, 1991) involve having participants from different age groups and studying the differences between them (Irwin, Pannbacker & Lass, 2008). Dodd, Holm, Hua, Crosbie and Broomfield (2006) note that with this method of data collection, one is likely to obtain only probable data as a cross-sectional study does not allow for the identification of development patterns.…”

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“…Phonological processes have been identified in a range of different Interestingly though, some authors (e.g. Hua & Dodd, 2000) found that some of the phonological processes used in one language would be considered atypical in another. This further highlights the differences in languages and the need to carry out research in order to identify language specific differences.…”

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Phonological development of first language isiXhosa-speaking children aged 3;0–6;0 years: A descriptive cross-sectional study

Maphalala¹,

Pascoe²,

Smouse

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…Dodd and colleagues reported that children learning Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese) and Cantonese acquire consonants more quickly than English-learning children (So & Dodd, 1995;Hua & Dodd, 2000). Both Putonghua and Mandarin contain fewer phonemes than English, making each phoneme carry relatively more phonological saliency.…”

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Speech and language development in six infants adopted from China

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Pollock

Oller

2006

Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders

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Children adopted from China currently represent the largest group of newly internationally adopted children in the US. An exploratory investigation of the communicative development of six young females adopted at ages 9 to 17 months from China by US families was conducted. Children were followed longitudinally from approximately three months post-adoption to age three years. English language skills were assessed at approximately three-month intervals, detailed communicative analyses were conducted at six months post-adoption, and outcomes were measured at three years of age. Results indicated wide variability in rates of English language development. Phonological, social-communicative, and lexical bases of communication were intact for each child at six months post-adoption. At age three years, four of the children demonstrated speech and language skills within one standard deviation of standardized test norms, one child demonstrated skills above the normal range, and one child's skills were below the normal range. This study provides evidence of the resiliency of children's language learning abilities.

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The phonological acquisition of Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese)

Cited by 214 publications

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Phonological development of first language isiXhosa-speaking children aged 3;0–6;0 years: A descriptive cross-sectional study

Speech and language development in six infants adopted from China

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