The present study investigated tone perception by speakers of Taiwanese Southern Min and those of American English with an AX discrimination task. Two Taiwanese Southern Min tone continua were constructed from natural speech stimuli. One continuum ranged from a high level tone (T55) to a mid level tone (T33), and the other from a high level (T55) to a high falling tone (T51). The results showed...

CONCLUSIONS In prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants, tone perception and production performance are highly correlated. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that tone perception is the prerequisite for good tone production. OBJECTIVES Previous research has shown remarkable deficits in tone perception and production in native tone language-speaking, prelingually deafened c...

In many languages, tone (i.e., pitch patterns) is part of the phonological system; two words with the same sequences of segments can differ only in tone. Tone does not distinguish word meanings in English, so English-learning infants can ignore tone when learning words, but do they? We examined the encoding of tonal detail in word learning by monolingual English-learning 14and 17-month-olds. In...

Previous research has shown that listeners from tonal languages are better at processing tone compared to speakers from non-tonal languages. However, most of this research has tested Asian tone languages, particularly those which have many tonal contrasts and a dense tone-to-syllable association. In this paper we investigate the mental representation of derived tones in Bemba, a Bantu language ...

This study explores the underlying drivers of tone corporate social responsibility (CSR) narratives by considering four governance mechanisms and examining whether there is a relationship between environmental, social, (ESG) disclosure CSR narrative based on sample UK firms from 2008 to 2017. The results show that more independent directors would lead less optimistic language (positive tone) pe...

introduction: the incidence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis is increasing in developing countries. aminoglycosides are an integral part of second-line drugs, however ototoxicity is a major limitation for their use. this study aims to determine the extent of hearing loss in patients taking one of the commonly prescribed drugs for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (mdr-tb), kanamycin, at a gov...

in order to the enhancement of the quality of speech corrupted by additive noise, a speech enhancement method has been put forward based on the combination of spectral subtraction and binary masking. spectral subtraction is a powerful method for removing noise from speech and binary masking provides essential elements to be used in monaural speech segregation. in the proposed combined method, f...

In Mandarin two-character compound words, the syllable of second rightmost constituent may be neutralized, which in combination with first full tone as to form a neutral trochee prosody pattern [Strong-weak]. Because (character writing form) can carry more than one tone, it is possible that has both and form, semantically different. This study focused on prosodic features disyllabic compounds a...

OBJECTIVES The present study explored tone perception ability in school age Mandarin-speaking children with otitis media with effusion (OME) in noisy listening environments. The study investigated the interaction effects of noise, tone type, age, and hearing status on monaural tone perception, and assessed the application of a hierarchical clustering algorithm for profiling hearing impairment i...

This study investigates the effect of language attrition and tone sandhi on speech processing of Taiwanese tones. The mid level tone was previously found to be the most confusing category, and is largely confused with low-falling tone. This study argues that the tonal errors are caused by the effect of language attrition and tone sandhi. Three perception and one production tasks were conducted ...