33.3512, Books: Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese: Lam

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Subject: 33.3512, Books: Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese: Lam

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:48:24
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese: Lam

 


Title: Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of
Cantonese 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 35  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   https://lincom-shop.eu/
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/LSPh-36-Perception-of-lexical-tones-by-homeland-and-heritage-speakers-of-Cantonese/en 


Author: Zoe Wai-Man Lam

Hardback: ISBN:  9783969390566 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 164


Abstract:

Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese

Zoe Wai-Man Lam
The University of British Columbia

This study compares the lexical tone perception abilities of two populations
with different bilingual configurations: Cantonese-dominant adults who grew up
in Hong Kong (referred to as homeland speakers), and English-dominant adults
who grew up in a Cantonese-speaking household in Canada (heritage speakers).
>From infancy both were exposed to Cantonese as a first language in terms of
chronological order; however, after the onset of schooling, each became
dominant in the majority language of their respective society. 
Given this background, this research project investigates whether heritage
speakers’ perception of lexical tones of a non-dominant first language
(Cantonese) exhibits cross-language effects from a dominant second language
(English) that does not have a contrastive dimension of tone. Results of a
series of perception experiments indicate that homeland speakers have a
significantly greater ability to distinguish tonally contrastive words by
solely relying on tonal information. Both groups showed confusion of
overlapping subsets of tone pairs, but heritage speakers had a higher error
percentage, which suggests a quantitative but not qualitative difference
between the two groups. Lastly, the two groups used different listening
strategies in tone identification.

ISBN 9783969390566 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 35. 320pp. EUR
164.00. 2022.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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