A5102854471- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Language Development and Disorders
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Topic Modeling
- Music and Audio Processing
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
CSIRO Health and Biosecurity
2025
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2009-2023
Peking University
2019
The Ohio State University
2000
Chinese script is non-alphabetic and a graph basically syllabic which may consist of phonetic semantic radicals with no representation phonemes. The logographeme, unit smaller than radical, has been suggested to be the basic writing based on data collected people aphasia. To better understand role logographemes in development, corpus characters appearing primary school textbooks established. Logographemes are analysed terms features that believed influence development. A total 249 were...
This study investigated a theoretically challenging dissociation between good production and poor perception of tones among neurologically unimpaired native speakers Cantonese. The is referred to as the near-merger phenomenon in sociolinguistic studies sound change. In passive oddball paradigm, lexical nonlexical syllables T1/T6 T4/T6 contrasts were presented elicit mismatch negativity (MMN) P3a from two groups participants, those who could produce distinguish all language (Control) but...
This paper examines the tone-merging phenomenon in Hong Kong Cantonese. Both perception and production tasks were administered to 120 participants with ages ranging from 20 58 years. After considering complicated interplay of confusion, provides statistical evidence that three tonal contrasts have undergone merging contemporary They are Full-merger T2 T5, where contrast is collapsed both production; Partial-merger T3 T6, only; Near-merger T4 but maintained production.
AbstractAbstractThis paper reports findings from an experimental study of the perception and production Cantonese consonant endings [m, n, η, p, t, k] by 40 male female subjects who were university students at time study. The presented with a series tasks that had been specially designed for investigating their ability to perceive, produce identify Cantonese, endings. For part study, listened recordings pairs syllables indicated whether two same or different. In individual repeated what they...
Aim: In this study, we examine the production of Cantonese tones by preschool Urdu–Cantonese children living in Hong Kong. Methodology: 21 first language Urdu second (ages 4–6) and 20 age-matched participated a picture-naming experiment with 86 words (109 syllables total). Data Analysis: Acoustic analysis was carried out for perceptually correct incorrect tone productions each tone. Comparisons were also made across speaker groups regarding accuracy rates error patterns. Findings: Overall,...
Though Cantonese is the most influential variety of Chinese other than Mandarin, there are only a limited number corpora available for linguistic studies. Among essential steps building corpus, word segmentation necessary but highly challenging task due to lack clear boundary in Cantonese. This paper reports construction and evaluation an open-source automatic segmenter developed The tool component multilingual SPPAS program designed be used directly by linguists. It free software...

 This paper gives an introduction to the Cantonese adaptation of Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), which is part Language Impairment Testing in Settings (LITMUS) battery. We here discuss motivation adapting this assessment instrument into Cantonese, process itself and potential contexts use MAIN.
The influence of feed-forward consistency (FFC) (i.e., the mapping from orthographic form to pronunciation whole character) on character recognition and reading aloud tasks have been well documented in a sizable literature which subjects performed better consistent characters than inconsistent characters. Analogous FFC effect aloud, feedback (FBC) (“consistent” when always maps onto one form, “inconsistent” if multiple forms) was observed spelling at phoneme-grapheme levels English (e.g.,...
Hong Kong Cantonese (HKC) and Guangzhou (GZC) are two major accents of spoken in geographically non-contiguous cities Southern China. Previous studies were unable to identify the phonetic features that discern since they share same phonological system. This study attempted solve puzzle by investigating voice quality differences between through acoustic analysis on speech output 191 talkers three age groups ranging from 18 65 years old. Among various spectral noise measurements quality, we...
Event Abstract Back to Utterance-body intonation is not realised as a function of SFP in Cantonese: A preliminary investigation Carmen Kung1, 2*, Dorothee J. Chwilla3, Roxana Fung1 and Herbert Schriefers3 1 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kong, SAR China 2 Macquarie Australia 3 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition Behaviour, Radboud Netherlands Tone languages use variations fundamental frequency (F0) express both lexical tone intonation. These two serve distinctive functions: The former...