Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Infant-Directed Speech: Age-Related Changes in the Second Year of Life

Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Infant-Directed Speech: Age-Related Changes in the Second Year of Life

Tonal information is essential to early word learning in tone languages. Although numerous studies have investigated the intonational and segmental properties of infant-directed speech (IDS), only a few studies have explored the properties of lexical tones in IDS. These studies mostly focused on the...

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Main Authors: Mengru Han, Nivja H. de Jong, René Kager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
infant-directed speech
lexical tone
prosody
Mandarin Chinese
age effect
word learning
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00434/full

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