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  • Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures  (8)
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    The acquisition of phonological alternations: The case of the Mandarin tone sandhi process
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 2019
    In:  Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 40, No. 6 ( 2019-11), p. 1495-1526
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    In: Applied Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 40, No. 6 ( 2019-11), p. 1495-1526
    Abstract: Phonological processes can pose a learning challenge for children, where the surface form for an underlying contrast may vary as a function of the phonological environment. Mandarin tone sandhi is a complex phonological process that requires knowledge about both the tonal and the prosodic context in which it applies. The present study explored the productive knowledge of tone sandhi processes by 108 3- to 5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children and 33 adults. Participants were asked to produce novel tone sandhi compounds in different tonal contexts and prosodic structures. Acoustic analysis showed that 3-year-olds have abstracted the tone sandhi process and can productively apply it to novel disyllabic words across tonal contexts. However, even 5-year-olds still differed from adults in applying tone sandhi in response to the trisyllabic prosodic structure. The results are discussed in terms of the factors that influence how tone sandhi processes, and phonological alternations more generally, are acquired.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0142-7164 , 1469-1817
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1017/S0142716419000353
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 2019
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  • 2
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    Phonetic enhancement of Mandarin vowels and tones: Infant-directed speech and Lombard speech
    Acoustical Society of America (ASA) ; 2017
    In:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 142, No. 2 ( 2017-08-01), p. 493-503
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    In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 142, No. 2 ( 2017-08-01), p. 493-503
    Abstract: Speech units are reported to be hyperarticulated in both infant-directed speech (IDS) and Lombard speech. Since these two registers have typically been studied separately, it is unclear if the same speech units are hyperarticulated in the same manner between these registers. The aim of the present study is to compare the effect of register on vowel and tone modification in the tonal language Mandarin Chinese. Vowel and tone productions were produced by 15 Mandarin-speaking mothers during interactions with their 12-month-old infants during a play session (IDS), in conversation with a Mandarin-speaking adult in a 70 dBA eight-talker babble noise environment (Lombard speech), and in a quiet environment (adult-directed speech). Vowel space expansion was observed in IDS and Lombard speech, however, the patterns of vowel-shift were different between the two registers. IDS displayed tone space expansion only in the utterance-final position, whereas there was no tone space expansion in Lombard speech. The overall pitch increased for all tones in both registers. The tone-bearing vowel duration also increased in both registers, but only in utterance-final position. The difference in speech modifications between these two registers is discussed in light of speakers' different communicative needs.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0001-4966 , 1520-8524
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1121/1.4995998
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    Publication Date: 2017
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    Two-dimensional grid-free compressive beamforming
    Acoustical Society of America (ASA) ; 2017
    In:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 142, No. 2 ( 2017-08-01), p. 618-629
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    In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 142, No. 2 ( 2017-08-01), p. 618-629
    Abstract: Compressive beamforming realizes the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and strength quantification of acoustic sources by solving an underdetermined system of equations relating microphone pressures to a source distribution via compressive sensing. The conventional method assumes DOAs of sources to lie on a grid. Its performance degrades due to basis mismatch when the assumption is not satisfied. To overcome this limitation for the measurement with plane microphone arrays, a two-dimensional grid-free compressive beamforming is developed. First, a continuum based atomic norm minimization is defined to denoise the measured pressure and thus obtain the pressure from sources. Next, a positive semidefinite programming is formulated to approximate the atomic norm minimization. Subsequently, a reasonably fast algorithm based on alternating direction method of multipliers is presented to solve the positive semidefinite programming. Finally, the matrix enhancement and matrix pencil method is introduced to process the obtained pressure and reconstruct the source distribution. Both simulations and experiments demonstrate that under certain conditions, the grid-free compressive beamforming can provide high-resolution and low-contamination imaging, allowing accurate and fast estimation of two-dimensional DOAs and quantification of source strengths, even with non-uniform arrays and noisy measurements.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0001-4966 , 1520-8524
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1121/1.4996460
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    Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    Publication Date: 2017
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  • 4
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    Source information is inherently linked to working memory representation for auditory but not for visual stimuli
    Elsevier BV ; 2020
    In:  Cognition Vol. 197 ( 2020-04), p. 104160-
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    In: Cognition, Elsevier BV, Vol. 197 ( 2020-04), p. 104160-
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0010-0277
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104160
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2020
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  • 5
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    Acquisition of weak syllables in tonal languages: acoustic evidence from neutral tone in Mandarin Chinese
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 2019
    In:  Journal of Child Language Vol. 46, No. 1 ( 2019-01), p. 24-50
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    In: Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 46, No. 1 ( 2019-01), p. 24-50
    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.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0305-0009 , 1469-7602
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1017/S0305000918000296
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 2019
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    Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?
    Elsevier BV ; 2021
    In:  Brain and Language Vol. 215 ( 2021-04), p. 104922-
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    In: Brain and Language, Elsevier BV, Vol. 215 ( 2021-04), p. 104922-
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0093-934X
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104922
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2021
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    Resolution enhancement of two-dimensional grid-free compressive beamforming
    Acoustical Society of America (ASA) ; 2018
    In:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 143, No. 6 ( 2018-06-01), p. 3860-3872
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    In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 143, No. 6 ( 2018-06-01), p. 3860-3872
    Abstract: Reconstructing the acoustic source distribution via imposing a sparsity constraint on a continuum, the atomic norm minimization (ANM) based grid-free compressive beamforming can eliminate the basis mismatch of conventional grid-based compressive beamforming. However, it works well only for sufficiently separated sources, which prohibits high resolution. The drawback arises because it uses an atomic norm to measure the source sparsity, while the atomic norm is not a direct sparse metric and its minimization is equivalent to the sparsity constraint only when the sources are sufficiently separated. This paper devotes itself to overcoming the drawback for the two-dimensional ANM based grid-free compressive beamforming. First, a sparse metric that can promote sparsity to a greater extent than the atomic norm is proposed. Then, using this metric a minimization problem is formulated and the majorization−minimization (MM) solving algorithm is introduced. MM iteratively conducts atomic norm minimization with a sound reweighting strategy, and therefore the developed method can be termed as iterative reweighted atomic norm minimization (IRANM). Both simulations and experiments demonstrate that whether a standard uniform rectangular array or a non-uniform array constituted by a small number of microphones is utilized, IRANM can overcome the drawback and thus enhance the resolution.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0001-4966 , 1520-8524
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1121/1.5042239
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    Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    Publication Date: 2018
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    Acoustic realization of Mandarin neutral tone and tone sandhi in infant-directed speech and Lombard speech
    Acoustical Society of America (ASA) ; 2017
    In:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 142, No. 5 ( 2017-11-01), p. 2823-2835
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    In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 142, No. 5 ( 2017-11-01), p. 2823-2835
    Abstract: Mandarin lexical tones are modified in both infant-directed speech (IDS) and Lombard speech, resulting in tone hyperarticulation. However, it is unclear if these registers also alter contextual tones (neutral tone and tone sandhi) and if such phonetic modification might affect acquisition of these tones. This study therefore examined how neutral tone and tone sandhi are realized in IDS, and how their acoustic manifestations compare with those in Lombard speech, where the communicative needs of listeners differ. Neutral tone and tone sandhi productions were elicited from 15 Mandarin-speaking mothers during (1) interactions with their 12-month-old infants (IDS), (2) in conversation with a Mandarin-speaking adult in a noisy environment (Lombard speech), and (3) in conversation with a Mandarin-speaking adult in a quiet environment (adult-directed speech). The results showed that, although both contextual tones were modified in IDS and Lombard speech, their key tone features were maintained. In addition, IDS and Lombard speech modified these tones differently: IDS increased pitch height and modified pitch contour, while Lombard speech increased pitch height only. The realization of neutral tone and tone sandhi across registers is discussed with reference to listeners' different communicative needs.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0001-4966 , 1520-8524
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1121/1.5008372
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    Publication Date: 2017
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