dc.contributor.author | Choi, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Tong, Xiuli | |
dc.contributor.author | Samuel, Arthur G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-30T14:33:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-30T14:33:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | William Choi, Xiuli Tong, Arthur G. Samuel, Better than native: Tone language experience enhances English lexical stress discrimination in Cantonese-English bilingual listeners, Cognition, Volume 189, 2019, Pages 188-192, ISSN 0010-0277, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.004. | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-0277 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/32592 | |
dc.description | Available online 13 April 2019 | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | While many second language (L2) listeners are known to struggle when discriminating non-native features absent in their first language (L1), no study has reported that L2 listeners perform better than native listeners in this regard. The present study tested whether Cantonese-English bilinguals were better in discriminating English lexical stress in individual words or pseudowords than native English listeners, even though lexical stress is absent in Cantonese. In experiments manipulating acoustic, phonotactic, and lexical cues, Cantonese-English bilingual adults exhibited superior performance in discriminating English lexical stress than native English listeners across all phonotactic/lexical conditions when the fundamental frequency (f0) cue to lexical stress was present. The findings underscore the facilitative effect of Cantonese tone language experience on English lexical stress discrimination. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This article is, in part, based on the fourth chapter of the PhD thesis submitted by William Choi to The University of Hong Kong. This research was supported, in part, by the Language Learning Dissertation Grant from Language Learning to William Choi. It was also supported by the Pilot Scheme on International Experiences for Research Postgraduate Students from The University of Hong Kong to William Choi, and the Early Career Scheme (27402514), General Research Fund (17673216), and General Research Fund (17609518) from the HKSAR Research Grant Council to Xiuli Tong. Support was also provided by Ministerio de Ciencia E Innovacion, Grant PSI2014-53277, Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, Grant SEV-2015-0490, and by the National Science Foundation under Grant IBSS-1519908 to Arthur Samuel. We thank Benjamin Munson for his useful suggestion about the syllable-timed nature of Cantonese and the four anonymous reviewers for comments that have helped us to develop our ideas and presentation more clearly. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Cognition | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2014-53277 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/SEV-2015-0490 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | Tone language expertise | es_ES |
dc.subject | Second language learning | es_ES |
dc.subject | Lexical stress | es_ES |
dc.subject | Lexical tone | es_ES |
dc.subject | Cross-language speech perception | es_ES |
dc.title | Better than native: Tone language experience enhances English lexical stress discrimination in Cantonese-English bilingual listeners | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognition | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.004 | |