Tone perception ability of cantonese-speaking children

Language and Speech

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-406

  Lee, Kathy Yuet Sheung ^a,c   Chiu, Sung Nok ^b   Van Hasselt, Charles Andrew ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; FO onset and offset; Lexical knowledge; Tone perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0141833974     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309020450040401     Document Type: Article

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