Are Tones Phones?

Autor/inn/en	Burnham, Denis; Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Chris; Ciocca, Valter; Schoknecht, Colin; Kasisopa, Benjawan; Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn
Titel	Are Tones Phones?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108 (2011) 4, S.693-712 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2010.07.008
Schlagwörter	Psycholinguistics; Reading Ability; Thai; Reading Instruction; Experiments; Sino Tibetan Languages; Phonological Awareness; Multiple Regression Analysis; Children; Adults; Primary Education; Child Psychology; Perception; Auditory Stimuli; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psycholinguistik; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Leseunterricht; Erprobung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Primarbereich; Kinderpsychologie; Wahrnehmung; Auditive Stimulation
Abstract	The psycholinguistic status of lexical tones and phones is indexed via phonological and tonological awareness (PA and TA, respectively) using Thai speech. In Experiment 1 (Thai participants, alphabetic script and orthographically explicit phones/tones), PA was better than TA in children and primary school-educated adults, and TA improved to PA levels only in tertiary-educated adults. In Experiment 2 (Cantonese participants, logographic script and no orthographically explicit phones/tones), children and primary-educated adults had better PA than TA, and PA and TA were equivalent in tertiary-educated adults, but were nevertheless still below the level of their Thai counterparts. Experiment 3 (English-language participants, alphabetic script and nontonal) showed better PA than TA. Regression analyses showed that both TA and PA are predicted by reading ability for Thai children but by general nonorthographic age-related variables for Cantonese children, whereas for English children reading ability predicts PA but not TA. The results show a phone>tone perceptual advantage over both age and languages that is affected by availability of orthographically relevant information and metalinguistic maturity. More generally, both the perception and the psycholinguistic representation of phones and tones differ. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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