The perception of lexical tone contrasts in Cantonese children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1493-1509

  Wong, Anita M Y ^a   Ciocca, Valter ^a,b   Yung, Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cantonese Chinese; Lexical tone perception; Specific language impairment (SLI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 71649109992     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0170)     Document Type: Article

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