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Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language.

Lei, Ka Yan Margaret. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-94). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iv / 摘要 --- p.vi / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- BACKGROUND --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Infants' perception of speech contrasts --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Discrimination of segmental contrasts --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Discrimination of suprasegmental contrasts --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Cantonese tonal system --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Properties and classification of the Cantonese tones --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Distributional pattern of the Cantonese tones --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3 --- Tone perception in Cantonese-speaking adults and children --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Tone perception in Cantonese-speaking adults --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Tone perception in Cantonese-speaking children --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Discussion --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- Tone acquisition --- p.32 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- METHODOLOGY --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- Operant conditioning --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- Background of the paradigm --- p.35 / Chapter 3.3 --- Subjects --- p.38 / Chapter 3.4 --- Stimuli used in the experiments --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Auditory stimuli --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Visual stimuli --- p.41 / Chapter 3.5 --- Experimental site --- p.43 / Chapter 3.6 --- Procedure --- p.46 / Chapter 3.7 --- Technical control of experiment --- p.49 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS OF THE STUDY --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1 --- Details of experiment --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2 --- Assessment criteria --- p.55 / Chapter 4.3 --- Results --- p.58 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Discrimination performance of Group I subjects --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Discrimination performance of Group II subjects --- p.68 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Discrimination performance of Group III subjects --- p.72 / Chapter 4.4 --- Comparison with previous studies --- p.72 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.73 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1 --- Strengths of the VRISD paradigm --- p.74 / Chapter 5.2 --- The use of operant conditioning --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3 --- Relative nature of tone --- p.77 / Chapter 5.4 --- Acoustic similarity between the tones --- p.78 / Chapter 5.5 --- Interplay between production and perception --- p.79 / Chapter 5.6 --- Association between tone perception and tone acquisition --- p.81 / Chapter 5.7 --- Tonal versus segmental discrimination --- p.82 / Chapter 5.8 --- Tone perception in connected speech --- p.84 / Chapter 5.9 --- Gender identification --- p.85 / Chapter 5.10 --- Conclusions --- p.86 / Bibliography --- p.88

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325841
Date January 2007
ContributorsLei, Ka Yan Margaret., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Linguistics.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, ix, 94 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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