Alveolarization in Hong Kong Cantonese: a sociophonetic study of neogrammarian and lexical diffusion models of sound change by Chan, M

“…<p>This thesis is a quantitative study of sociophonetic variation which focuses on the Hong Kong Cantonese velar coda consonants -<b>η</b> and -<b>k</b>. …”

Separated and reunified: An apparent time investigation of the voice quality differences between Hong Kong Cantonese and Guangzhou Cantonese. by Roxana S Y Fung, Eugene Y C Wong

“…Hong Kong Cantonese (HKC) and Guangzhou Cantonese (GZC) are two major accents of Cantonese spoken in two geographically non-contiguous cities in Southern China. …”
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Hong Kong Women Project a Larger Body When Speaking to Attractive Men by Albert Lee, Eva Ng

“…We recruited 19 young female native speakers of Hong Kong Cantonese who completed an attractiveness rating task, followed by a speech production task where they were presented a subset of the same faces. …”
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English medium higher education in Hong Kong: linguistic challenges of local and non-local students by Shepard, C, Rose, HL

“…Additionally, the findings suggest that these challenges can vary significantly based on background and first language, relating specifically to three different demographic student groups: local Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking students, Putonghua-speaking mainland Chinese students, and non-Chinese speaking local and international students.…”

Effects of age and language environment on lexical tone processing by Leung, Kai Yan

“…Studies in the recent years has also shown a growing tone merging trend in Hong Kong Cantonese. With age and language environment in mind, this study thus sought to find out the extent to which age would influence lexical tone discrimination and production abilities, as well as how language environment would bring out interplaying effects when taken into the picture. 51 native and heritage speakers of Cantonese were separated into the Young, Old, HK and SG groups as between-subject factors. …”
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Transcreation : a polymathic approach to translation by Lim, Chyn-Yiing

“…Case studies in English, Simplified Chinese (Mainland Chinese Mandarin) and Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese) demonstrate the inner workings of a transcreator’s mind in polymathic mode when navigating the complex web of agents, fields, habitus and doxa that govern the advertising creative development process and the transcreation process. …”
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The effects of alphabetic literacy, linguistic-processing demand and tone type on the dichotic listening of lexical tones by Jing Shao, Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang, Gaoyuan Zhang, Yubin Zhang, Chotiga Pattamadilok

“…In this study we used a dichotic listening paradigm to examine the influences of the knowledge of Jyutping (a romanization writing system which provides explicit Cantonese tone markers), linguistic-processing demand and tone type on the ear preference pattern of native tone processing in Hong Kong Cantonese speakers. While participants with little knowledge of Jyutping showed a previously reported left-ear advantage (LEA), those with a good level of Jyutping expertise exhibited either a right-ear advantage or bilateral processing during lexical tone identification and contour tone discrimination, respectively. …”
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Effects of culture on musical pitch perception by Wong, Patrick C. M., Ciocca, Valter, Chan, Alice Hiu Dan, Ha, Louisa Y. Y., Tan, Li-Hai, Peretz, Isabelle

“…One spoke a tone language in which differences in voice pitch correspond to differences in word meaning (in Hong Kong Cantonese, /si/ means ‘teacher’ and ‘to try’ when spoken in a high and mid pitch pattern, respectively). …”
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Health Service Utilization in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Cross-sectional Public Survey by Kevin KC Hung, Joseph H. Walline, Emily Ying Yang Chan, Zhe Huang, Eugene Siu Kai Lo, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Colin A. Graham

“…MethodsA cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted between March 22 and April 1, 2020, during the peak rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong. Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents over 18-years-old were recruited using a computerised random digital dialling (RDD) system. …”
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