10.23641/asha.7960826.v1
Peggy Pik Ki Mok
Peggy Pik Ki
Mok
Holly Sze Ho Fung
Holly Sze Ho
Fung
Vivian Guo Li
Vivian Guo
Li
Production–perception link in L1 Cantonese tones (Mok et al., 2019)
ASHA journals
2019
speech
language
perception
link
production
Cantonese
tone
acquisition
children
child
early
first language
L1
young
adolescents
monosyllabic
transcribed
native
speakers
forced-choice
pictures
pair
contrast
accuracy
maturity
mother
factors
Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
Language
2019-04-10 19:04:07
Journal contribution
https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Production_perception_link_in_L1_Cantonese_tones_Mok_et_al_2019_/7960826
<div><b>Purpose:</b> Previous studies showed early production precedes late perception in Cantonese tone acquisition, contrary to the general principle that perception precedes production in child language. How tone production and perception are linked in 1st language acquisition remains largely unknown. Our study revisited the acquisition of tone in Cantonese-speaking children, exploring the possible link between production and perception in 1st language acquisition.</div><div><b>Method: </b>One hundred eleven Cantonese-speaking children aged between 2;0 and 6;0 (years;months) and 10 adolescent reference speakers participated in tone production and perception experiments. Production materials with 30 monosyllabic words were transcribed in filtered and unfiltered conditions by 2 native judges. Perception accuracy was based on a 2-alternative forced-choice task with pictures covering all possible tone pair contrasts. </div><div><b>Results:</b> Children’s accuracy of production and perception of all the 6 Cantonese tones was still not adultlike by age 6;0. Both production and perception accuracies matured with age. A weak positive link was found between the 2 accuracies. Mother’s native language contributed to children’s production accuracy.</div><div><b>Conclusions: </b>Our findings show that production and perception abilities are associated in tone acquisition. Further study is needed to explore factors affecting production accuracy in children.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Supplemental Material S1. </b></div><div>One-sample <i>t </i>tests for Table 2 (production). </div><div>Multiple comparisons with Bonferroni corrections on perception accuracy of individual tone pairs in Figure 4 (summary and full details). </div><div><br></div><div>Mok, P. P. K., Fung, H. S. H., & Li, V. G. (2019). Assessing the link between perception and production in Cantonese tone acquisition. <i>Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, </i>1243–1257. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0430</div>