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| Autor/inn/en | Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Gao, Liqun; Demuth, Katherine |
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| Titel | Acquisition of Weak Syllables in Tonal Languages: Acoustic Evidence from Neutral Tone in Mandarin Chinese |
| Quelle | In: Journal of Child Language, 46 (2019) 1, S.24-50 (27 Seiten)
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| Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Tang, Ping) |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Schlagwörter | Syllables; Mandarin Chinese; Tone Languages; Intonation; Phonology; Control Groups; Preschool Children; Adults; Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Mastery Learning; China (Beijing) |
| Abstract | Weak syllables in Germanic and Romance languages have been reported to be challenging for young children, with syllable omission and/or incomplete reduction persisting till age five. In Mandarin Chinese, neutral tone (T0) involves a weak syllable with varied pitch realizations across (preceding) tonal contexts and short duration. The present study examined how and when T0 was acquired by 108 Beijing Mandarin-speaking children (3-5 years) relative to 33 adult controls. Lexicalized (familiar) and non-lexicalized (unfamiliar) T0 words were elicited in different preceding tonal contexts. Unlike previous reports, the present study revealed that children as young as three years have already developed a phonological category for T0, exhibiting contextually conditioned tonal realizations of T0 for both familiar and unfamiliar items. However, mastery of adult-like pitch and duration implementation of T0 is a protracted process not completed until age five. The implications for the acquisition of weak syllables more generally are discussed. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2020/1/01 |
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