Man-Tak Leung

Biographic Data

ID8587314
NAMEMan-Tak Leung
GIVEN NAMESMan-Tak
FAMILY NAMELeung
SIGNATURELEUNG M
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Speech and Hearing Sciences Hong Kong University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The effects of native phonotactic experience, cross-language perceptual similarity, and non-native phonological merger on Mandarin speakers’ perception of Cantonese syllable-final segments

    Open AccessChangwei Zhang, Si Chen et al.ARTICLEPhonetica2026

    Existing studies have emphasized the important effect of native phonotactic experience and cross-language perceptual similarity on non-native speech perception, but have seldom considered this issue when the targeted non-native segments are undergoing a phonological merger. To supplement this discussion, this study investigated Mandarin Chinese (MC) speakers’ perception of syllable-final segments (⁄-р⁄, ⁄-t⁄, ⁄-k⁄, ⁄-m⁄, ⁄-n⁄, ⁄-ŋ⁄, ⁄-Ø⁄) that ar…

  • Content-Form Interaction in the Acquisition of Temporal Markers by Mandarin-Speaking Children

    Open AccessTempo Po-Yi Tang, Y Y Hsu et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2024

    Aspect markers (AMs), temporal adverbs (TAs) and temporal nouns (TNs) are used by young Mandarin-speaking children to express time. However, the factors that affect the relative acquisition trajectories of these categories remains unclear. Accordingly, this study adopts Weist’s time-concept model to examine the patterns of acquisition between and within the above three categories of temporal markers in the Mandarin system of time. Specifically, t…

  • The Development of Morphemic Processing in Reading Chinese Compound Words

    Dustin Kai-Yan Lau, Man‐Tak Leung et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Speech…2011

    The current study investigated the development of morphemic processing in reading Chinese compound words. A total of 14 grade 2 children and 17 grade 6 children were recruited. A word-naming task and a character- naming task were conducted. Significant boundedness effects were observed in both word and character-naming tasks in grade 2. In contrast, significant boundedness effect was only found in character naming but not in word naming in grade …

  • Feedback Consistency Effect on Writing-to-Dictation Task in Chinese

    Man-Tak Leung, Hoi-Ming Lui et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Speech…2011

    The influence of feed-forward consistency (FFC) (i.e., the consistency of mapping from the orthographic form to the pronunciation of the whole \ncharacter) on character recognition and reading aloud tasks have been well documented in a sizable literature in which subjects performed better on feed-forward consistent characters than inconsistent characters. Analogous to the FFC effect in reading aloud, the feedback consistency (FBC) effect (“consis…

  • The Effect of Word Structure on the Acquisition of Chinese Two-Character Compound Words Across Grades

    Man‐Tak Leung, Man-Tak Leung et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Speech…2007

    This study investigated the hypothesis that the main component character which contributes more to the whole-word meaning is used as an access code in reading. Grade 1, 3, and 5 readers were asked to read aloud two-character Chinese compound words (modifier, supplement, and coordinative words) with four patterns of component character frequency (high-high, high-low, low-high, and low-low). Results showed that the main component character effect w…

  • Development of sub-character processing and the use of orthographical and phonological memories in learning new Chinese characters in primary school-aged normal readers

    Dustin Kai-Yan Lau, Man‐Tak Leung et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Speech…2004

    Normal Hong Kong schoolchildren readers from grades 1, 2 and 3 were involved in this experiment to find out at which grade the sub-character processing is employed to memorize newly learned Chinese characters. Subjects were required to work on a delayed-recall task with pseudo-characters constructed using different radical frequencies controlled across grades. Prior to the recall, verbal and visual intervening tasks were inserted to determine the…

  • Reading strategy in Hong Kong school-aged children

    Maggie Mun-Ki Chu, Man‐Tak Leung et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Speech…2003

    This study investigated the developmental trend of reading processing of Chinese two-character compound words in normal primary school-aged readers in Hong Kong. As the component characters of a Chinese multi-character compound word could be viewed as single morphemes, it was hypothesized that a compound word could be read as a meaningful whole, its component characters, or both. Previous studies (Zhang and Peng, 1992; Peng et al., 1999; etc.) sh…

  • Hkcac

    Man‐Tak Leung, Man-Tak Leung et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2001

    An adult language corpus of spoken Hong Kong Cantonese (HKCAC) has recently been developed consisting of spontaneous speech recorded from phone-in programs and forums on the radio in Hong Kong. The database represents the speech of a total of sixty-nine speakers in addition to the program hosts, and has approximately 170,000 characters. It is believed that HKCAC will be of great value to linguists who are interested in studying Cantonese, and spe…