Perception and production of Cantonese consonant endings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19502273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam-Po Law, Sam‐Po Law (0000-0001-9337-3866), Roxana S-Y Fung, Roxana Fung (0000-0003-3678-2174), Robert S Bauer |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 179-195 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-3286 • E-ISSN: 2058-0967 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/136132801805576590 |
| OpenAlex | W2003092844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper reports findings from an experimental study of the perception and production of Cantonese consonant endings [m, n, η, p, t, k] by 40 male and female subjects who were university students at the time of the study. The subjects were presented with a series of tasks that had been specially designed for investigating their ability to perceive, produce and identify Cantonese, consonant endings. For the perception part of the study, subjects listened to recordings of pairs of Cantonese syllables and indicated whether the two syllables were the same or different. In the production part of the study, subjects listened to a series of individual syllables and repeated what they had heard. In the identification part, subjects matched the syllable they heard in a recording with its romanized form by choosing the appropriate letterstring from among three presented to the subject on the computer screen. Among the major findings of this study are the following: (1) A positive relationship was found between the perception and production of endings [t]∼[k] and [n]∼[η];that is, if they could perceive the difference in the endings they were also likely to be able to produce it. (2) Subjects made significantly more errors in perceiving, producing, and identifying stop endings [t, k] than nasal endings [n, η]. (3) Subjects made the most errors in perceiving and repeating syllables with nuclear vowel [œ]. (4) Subjects erroneously interchanged stop endings [t, k] ([t] with [k] and [k] with [t]) at about the same rate. (5) In contrast, subjects tended to change nasal ending [η]to [n]. (6) Male and female subjects showed no difference in perception, production, and identification of consonant endings
Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Consonant · Linguistics · Perception · Syllable · Vowel · Communication · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
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| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |