Perception and production of lexical tones by 3-year-old, Mandarin-speaking children

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1065-1079

  Wong, Puison ^a,b   Schwartz, Richord G ^a   Jenkins, James J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Lexical tone; Mandarin; Perception; Production

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 31944443949     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/074)     Document Type: Article

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