Relative clauses in English-Mandarin bilingual children

Phonological patterns in Mandarin-English bilingual children.

Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study investigated both Mandarin and English phonological ...

Acoustic properties of shared vowels in bilingual Mandarin-English children

This study investigates L1-L2 interactions in relatively young Mandarin (L1)-English (L2) bilingual children through comparing their static and dynamic vowel acoustic features with those of age-matched corresponding monolingual children. Two groups of sequential bilingual children aged 5-6 years (one with low proficiency in English and the other with high proficiency in English) were recorded p...

An HMM-based bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS

We propose to build an HMM-based, Mandarin and English, bilingual TTS system. Starting with a simple baseline of two TTS systems built separately from Mandarin and English databases recorded by the same speaker, we construct a new, mixed-language TTS by designing language specific and independent questions to facilitate phone sharing across the two languages. With shared phones, the new system ...

Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...

Processing of English Relative Clauses by Adult