Lexical Tone Perception In Infants And Young Children Empirical Studies And Theoretical Perspectives
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Lexical Tone Perception In Infants And Young Children Empirical Studies And Theoretical Perspectives
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Author : Leher Singh
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2019-11-20
Lexical Tone Perception In Infants And Young Children Empirical Studies And Theoretical Perspectives written by Leher Singh and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-20 with categories.
In psycholinguistic research there has traditionally been a strong emphasis on understanding how particular language types of are processed and learned . In particular, Romance and Germanic languages (e.g. English, French, German) have, until recently, received more attention than other types, such as Chinese languages. This has led to selective emphasis on the phonological building blocks of European languages, consonants and vowels, to the exclusion of lexical tones which, like consonants and vowels, determine lexical meaning, but unlike consonants and vowels are based on pitch variations. Lexical tone is pervasive; it is used in at least half of the world’ languages (Maddieson, 2013), e.g., most Asian and some African, Central American, and European languages. This Research Topic brings together a collection of recent empirical research on the processing and representation of lexical tones across the lifespan with an emphasis on advancing knowledge on how tone systems are acquired. The articles focus on various aspects of tone: early perception of tones, influences of tone on word learning, the acquisition of new tone systems, and production of tones. One set of articles report on tone perception at the earliest stage of development, in infants learning either tone or non-tone languages. Tsao and Chen et al. demonstrate that infants’ sensitivity to Mandarin lexical tones, as well as pitch, improves over the first year of life in native and non-native learners in contrast to traditional accounts of perceptual narrowing for consonants and vowels. Götz et al. report a different pattern of perception for Cantonese tones and further demonstrate influences of methodological approaches on infants’ tone sensitivity. Fan et al. demonstrate that sensitivity to less well-studied properties of tone languages, such as neutral tone, may develop after the first year of life. Cheng and Lee ask a similar question in an electrophysiological study and report effects of stimulus salience on infants’ neural response to native tones. In a complementary set of studies focused on tone sensitivity in word learning, Burnham et al. demonstrate that infants bind tones to newly-learned words if they are learning a tone language, either monolingually or bilingually; although it was also found that object-word binding was influenced by the properties of individual tones. Liu and Kager chart a developmental trajectory over the second year of life in which infants narrow in their interpretation of non-native tones. Choi et al. investigate how learning a tone language can influence uptake of other suprasegmental properties of language, such as stress, and demonstrate that native tone sensitivity in children can facilitate stress sensitivity when learning a stress-based language. Finally, two studies focus on sensitivity to pitch in a sub-class tone languages: pitch accent languages. In a study on Japanese children’s abilities to recognise words they know, Ota et al. demonstrate a limited sensitivity to native pitch contrasts in toddlers. In contrast, Ramachers et al. demonstrate comparatively strong sensitivity to pitch in native and non-native speakers of a different pitch accent system (Limburghian) when learning new words. Several studies focus on learning new tone systems. In a training study with school-aged children, Kasisopa et al. demonstrate that tone language experience increases children’s abilities to learn new tone contrasts. Poltrock et al. demonstrate similar advantages of tone experience in learning new tone systems in adults. And in an elecrophysiological study, Liu et al. demonstrate order effects in adults’ neural responses to new tones, discussing implications for learning tone languages as an adult. Finally, Hannah et al. demonstrate that extralinguistic cues, such as facial expression, can support adults’ learning of new tone systems. In three studies investigating tone production, Rattansone et al. report the results of a study demonstrating kindergartners’ asynchronous mastery of tones – delayed acquisition of tone sandhi forms relative to base forms. In a study interrogating a corpus of adult tone production, Han et al. demonstrate that mothers produce tones in a distinct manner when speaking to infants; tone differences are emphasised more when speaking to infants than to adults. Combining perception and production of tones, Wong et al. report asynchronous development of tone perception and tone production in children. The Research Topic also includes a series of Opinion pieces and Commentaries addressing the broader relevance of tone and pitch to the study of language acquisition. Curtin and Werker discuss ways in which tone can be integrated into their model of infant language development (PRIMIR). Best discusses the phonological status of lexical tones and considers how recent empirical research on tone perception bears on this question. Kager focuses on how language learners distinguish lexical tones from other sources of pitch variation (e.g., affective and pragmatic) that also inform language comprehension. Finally, Antoniou and Chin unite evidence of tone sensitivity from children and adults and discuss how these areas of research can be mutually informative. Psycholinguistic studies of lexical tone acquisition have burgeoned over the past 13 years. This collection of empirical studies and opinion pieces provides a state-of-the-art panoply of the psycholinguistic study of lexical tones, and demonstrate its coming of age. The articles in this Research Topic will help address the hitherto Eurocentric non-tone language research emphasis, and will contribute to an expanding narrative of speech perception, speech production, and language acquisition that includes all of the world’s languages. Importantly, these studies underline the scientific promise of drawing from tone languages in psycholinguistic research; the research questions raised by lexical tone are unique and distinct from those typically applied to more widely studied languages and populations. The comprehensive study of language acquisition can only benefit from this expanded focus.
Crosstalk Between Intonation And Lexical Tones Linguistic Cognitive And Neuroscience Perspectives
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Author : Hatice Zora
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-09-06
Crosstalk Between Intonation And Lexical Tones Linguistic Cognitive And Neuroscience Perspectives written by Hatice Zora and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-06 with Science categories.
The Transition From Infancy To Language
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Author : Lois Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Transition From Infancy To Language written by Lois Bloom and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this important volume, Lois Bloom brings together the theoretical and empirical work she has carried out on early lexical development. Its focus is on the expressive power children acquire as they begin to talk and, in particular, on contributions from cognitive development, affect expression, and the social context for making the transition from prelinguistic expression to the expression of contents of mind. The first half of the book reviews the developments in infancy that enable the emergence of language and presents the theoretical perspective required for an understanding of the longitudinal study described in the second half. The book's main thesis is that language is acquired for expressing contents of mind and that its usefulness as a 'tool' is of only secondary importance. The Transition from Infancy to Language makes a major contribution to our knowledge of early lexical development, providing a persuasive theoretical model for researchers and students.
Words Thoughts And Theories
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Author : Alison Gopnik
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1998-09-01
Words Thoughts And Theories written by Alison Gopnik and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-01 with Psychology categories.
Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science. Gopnik and Meltzoff interweave philosophical arguments and empirical data from their own and other's research. Both the philosophy and the psychology, the arguments and the data, address the same fundamental epistemological question: How do we come to understand the world around us? Recently, the theory theory has led to much interesting research. However, this is the first book to look at the theory in extensive detail and to systematically contrast it with other theories. It is also the first to apply the theory to infancy and early childhood, to use the theory to provide a framework for understanding semantic development, and to demonstrate that language acquisition influences theory change in children.The authors show that children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of knowledge. These restructurings are similar to theory changes in science, and they influence children's early semantic development, since children's cognitive concerns shape and motivate their use of very early words. But, in addition, children pay attention to the language they hear around them and this too reshapes their cognition, and causes them to reorganize their theories.
Semantic Perception Theory
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Author : Kekang He
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Semantic Perception Theory written by Kekang He and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Education categories.
Based on an in-depth study of children’s language development theory, this book puts forward the original proposition that semantic perception is the human sixth sense. Presenting a detailed, complete, and scientific argumentation, it asserts that the innateness of semantic perception has a physiological basis and that language acquisition is based on semantic perception, and proposes the idea of a critical period of nurture and language growth. To this end, the book not only contrasts children’s language acquisition processes and the process of adult speech generation and comprehension, but also discusses the ability to read and write, describing this important stage of children’s language development and analyzing semantic perception. Focusing on education and psychology, it also discusses the use of semantic perception theory to instruct teaching and learning. This book is a valuable resource for teachers, researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the fields of educational technology, child development and language learning, as well as anyone interested in children’s language development.
Speech Perception Production And Acquisition
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Author : Huei‐Mei Liu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-14
Speech Perception Production And Acquisition written by Huei‐Mei Liu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-14 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and clinical populations and in children and adults. This book provides diverse perspectives and reviews of cutting-edge research in past decades on how Chinese speech is processed and learned. Along with each chapter, future research directions have been discussed. With these unique features and the broad coverage of topics, this book appeals to not only scholars and students who study speech perception in preverbal infants and in children and adults learning Chinese, but also to teachers with interests in pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as Second Language.
The Neural Basis For Lexical Tone Perception
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Author : Pui-Yan Veronica Kwok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-26
The Neural Basis For Lexical Tone Perception written by Pui-Yan Veronica Kwok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with categories.
This dissertation, "The Neural Basis for Lexical Tone Perception" by Pui-yan, Veronica, Kwok, 郭沛殷, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Research on how lexical tone is neuroanatomically represented in the human brain is central to our understanding of cortical regions subserving language. While lexical tones contain acoustic and linguistic information, past research has overwhelming focused on the acoustic processing of lexical tone with auditory stimuli, while our knowledge of semantic processing of lexical tones and how lexical tones contribute to reading remains superficial. Four functional magnetic resonance imaging studies were conducted with healthy, native Mandarin-speaking adults. Resting-state and task-based fMRI data were collected to investigate the neural systems and connectivity patterns for lexical tone perception. In Study 1, we used a novel methodology to investigate the neural substrates underlying auditory lexical tone perception. Prior neuroimaging research on cognitive processing of lexical tones has yielded inconsistent results. Also, experimental materials used in past studies carried minimal lexical semantics, an important dimension since speech tones serve to distinguish lexical meanings. Subjects performed a same-different tone discrimination task with meaningful, disyllabic Chinese words. Results showed that the left inferior frontal gyrus, right middle temporal gyrus and bilateral superior temporal gyri are responsible for the perception of linguistic pitches. We hypothesize that the left superior temporal region is engaged in primary acoustic analysis of the auditory stimuli, while the right middle superior temporal gyrus and the left inferior frontal region are involved in tonal and semantic processing of the language stimuli. In Study 2, we conducted a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of auditory lexical tone processing. A resting-state connectivity analysis was also conducted. Our results suggest that both hemispheres play roles in the auditory processing of lexical tone information with the left hemisphere playing a more dominant role. Yet, the resting-state connectivity data revealed an opposite pattern of laterality. We infer that tonal processing laterality is apparent only during active processing. In Study 3, subjects were required to make lexical tone judgments of visually presented Chinese characters. We found that tone perception of printed Chinese characters was mediated by strong brain activation in bilateral frontal regions, left inferior parietal lobule, left posterior middle/medial and inferior temporal region and bilateral visual areas. Surprising, no activation was found in superior temporal regions, brain sites well known for speech tone processing. The findings provided novel insights regarding how the activation in the superior temporal cortex associated with lexical tone perception depends on the input modality. In Study 4, we addressed the neural systems for the processing of tonal information in reading. We found that the extraction of tonal information in reading is lateralized to the right fronto-parietal network. Moreover, we examined the functional connectivity within cortical regions in the right hemisphere. Seed-to-voxel analyses showed that right frontal regions are connected to left frontal parietal and bilateral subcortical areas to support Chinese tone reading. Our connectivity results lend support to the view that both hemispheres participate and interact in processing lexical tones. Together, these results provide significant insights into the neural circuitries involved i
The Role Of Pitch Characteristics On The Development Of Lexical Tone Perception In The First Year Of Life
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Author : 徐嘉盈
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Role Of Pitch Characteristics On The Development Of Lexical Tone Perception In The First Year Of Life written by 徐嘉盈 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Chinese language categories.
Prosodic Studies
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Author : Hongming Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Prosodic Studies written by Hongming Zhang and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings. This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well as examples from other languages. It brings together the most recent research in the field and also charts the influence on such diverse fields as multimedia communication and SLA. Intended for a wide audience of linguists that includes neighbouring disciplines such as computational sciences, psycholinguists, and specialists in language acquisition, Prosodic Studies is also ideal for scholars and researchers working in intonation who want a complement of information on specifics.
Encyclopedia Of Language Development
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Author : Patricia J. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2014-03-28
Encyclopedia Of Language Development written by Patricia J. Brooks and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers employ in studying this progression? Why do some become adept at multiple languages while others face a lifelong struggle with just one? What accounts for declines in language proficiency, and how might such declines be moderated? Despite an abundance of textbooks, specialized monographs, and a couple of academic handbooks, there has been no encyclopedic reference work in this area--until now. The Encyclopedia of Language Development covers the breadth of theory and research on language development from birth through adulthood, as well as their practical application. Features: This affordable A-to-Z reference includes 200 articles that address such topic areas as theories and research tradition; biological perspectives; cognitive perspectives; family, peer, and social influences; bilingualism; special populations and disorders; and more. All articles (signed and authored by key figures in the field) conclude with cross reference links and suggestions for further reading. Appendices include a Resource Guide with annotated lists of classic books and articles, journals, associations, and web sites; a Glossary of specialized terms; and a Chronology offering an overview and history of the field. A thematic Reader’s Guide groups related articles by broad topic areas as one handy search feature on the e-Reference platform, which includes a comprehensive index of search terms. Available in both print and electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Language Development is a must-have reference for researchers and is ideal for library reference or circulating collections.