Thilanga D Wewalaarachchi

Biographic Data

ID5761545
NAMEThilanga D Wewalaarachchi
GIVEN NAMESThilanga D
FAMILY NAMEWewalaarachchi
SIGNATUREWEWALAARACHCHI T D
AFFILIATIONSNational University of Singapore
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Effects of age and bilingualism on sensitivity to native and nonnative tone variation

    Lachham Singh, Thilanga D WewalaarachchiARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2020

    Most children learn a language such as Mandarin Chinese that uses lexical tone to communicate meaning. This study aimed to examine the phonological specificity of tone representations in monolingual and bilingual learners of Mandarin. Two age-groups were tested: toddlers (2.5 to 3.5 years) and preschoolers (4 to 5 years; N = 80). Using a preferential looking paradigm, children were presented with correct and mispronounced (Cantonese or Mandarin t…

  • Lexical tone variation and spoken word recognition in preschool children

    Open AccessLachham Singh, ALOYSIA TAN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2017

    Children undergo gradual progression in their ability to differentiate correct and incorrect pronunciations of words, a process that is crucial to establishing a native vocabulary. For the most part, the development of mature phonological representations has been researched by investigating children's sensitivity to consonant and vowel variation, with a much lesser focus on lexical tones. The current study investigates sensitivity to lexical tone…