This paper proposes that Northern Tepehuan is a tonal language with just one lexical tone 'low tone' and therefore privative system. L sufficient to explain the pitch contrasts in also necessary "inconsistencies" of stress assignment. Stress normally predictable from size word, syllable-weight, cued by H* intonational tone. Nonetheless, words do not obey Stress-to-Weight constraint, it could be...

Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...