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Variation in phonological bias: Bias for vowels, rather than consonants or tones in lexical processing by Cantonese-learning toddlers
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In: ISSN: 0010-0277 ; EISSN: 1873-7838 ; Cognition ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02997489 ; Cognition, Elsevier, 2021, 213, pp.104486. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104486⟩ (2021)
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Variation in phonological bias: Bias for vowels, rather than consonants or tones in lexical processing by Cantonese-learning toddlers
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In: ISSN: 0010-0277 ; EISSN: 1873-7838 ; Cognition ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03391035 ; Cognition, Elsevier, 2021, 213, pp.104486. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104486⟩ (2021)
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Abstract:
International audience ; Consonants and vowels have been considered to fulfill different functions in language processing, vowels being more important for prosodic and syntactic processes and consonants for lexically related processes (Nespor et al., 2003). This C-bias hypothesis in lexical processing is supported by studies with adults and infants in many languages such as English, French, Spanish, although a few studies, on Danish and Mandarin, suggest the existence of cross-linguistic variation. The present study explores whether a C-bias exists in a tone language with a complex tone system, Cantonese, by comparing the relative weight given to consonants, vowels, and also tones during word learning. To do so, looking behaviors of Cantonese-learning 20-and 30-month-olds (24 children per age/condition, 6 groups) were recorded by an eyetracker while they watched animated cartoons in Cantonese to learn pairs of novel words. The words differed minimally by either a consonant (e.g., /toe6/ vs. /koe6/), a vowel (e.g., /k h im3/ vs. /k h ɛm3/), or a tone (e.g., T2 vs. T5). Analyses on proportional looking times revealed significant learning in 30-month-olds only, and at that age, only for the vowel contrasts. Growth curve analyses revealed better performance for the vowel condition compared to the other two conditions. The present findings establish a V-bias in Cantoneselearning 30-month-olds, adding new evidence from that tone language that the C-bias in lexical processing is not language-general. Implications for theoretical discussions on the origins of this phonological bias, and the impact of tones in early language acquisition, are discussed.
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[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; Cantonese; minimal pairs; phonological bias; word learning
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03391035/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03391035/file/Chen%20et%20al%20Cognition%20manuscript%20-%20revision%20clean.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104486
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03391035
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Infant learning of words in a typologically distant nonnative language
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In: ISSN: 0305-0009 ; EISSN: 1469-7602 ; Journal of Child Language ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02565996 ; Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020, ⟨10.1017/S0305000920000161⟩ (2020)
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Adult Learning of Novel Words in a Non-native Language: Consonants, Vowels, and Tones
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Syntactic Complexity and Adults' Listening Comprehension: a Task Comparison
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ACQUISITION OF CHINESE PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES
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Cheung, Hintat. - : Mid-America Linguistics Conference, 2017. : University of Kansas, 2017
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Tracking Multiple Statistics: Simultaneous Learning of Object Names and Categories in English and Mandarin Speakers
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Towards an Automatic Measurement of Verbal Lexicon Acquisition: The Case for a Young Children-versus-Adults Classification in French and Mandarin
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In: PACLIC 24 Proceedings ; PACLIC 24 : Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992078 ; PACLIC 24 : Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3), 2010, Sendai, Japan. pp.809-818 (2010)
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The Use of a Cultural Protocol for Quantifying Cultural Variations in Comparing Verb Semantics between Chinese and French
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In: PACLIC 24 : Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992089 ; PACLIC 24 : Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3), Nov 2010, Sendai, Japan. pp.791-798 (2010)
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Using Extra-Linguistic Material for Mandarin-French Verbal Constructions Comparison
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In: PACLIC 23 - 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992102 ; PACLIC 23 - 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Dec 2009, Hong-Kong, Hong Kong SAR China. pp.56--68 (2009)
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Bridging the Gap between Graph Modeling and Developmental Psycholinguistics: An Experiment on Measuring Lexical Proximity in Chinese Semantic Space
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In: Proceding of The 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ; 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992105 ; 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2009, Hong Kong SAR China. pp.118--130 (2009)
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Statistical Word Learning and Object Categorization: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Mandarin
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In: Chen, Chi-hsin; Cheung, Hintat; Wu, Chih-Yi; & Yu, Chen. (2009). Statistical Word Learning and Object Categorization: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Mandarin. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 31(31). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2ws929hp (2009)
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