Search Results - "Chen, Aoju"

Internal structure of intonational categories: The (dis)appearance of a perceptual magnet effect by Rodd, Joe, Chen, Aoju

“…The question of whether intonation events are speech categories like phonemes and lexical tones has long been a puzzle in prosodic research. In past work,…”
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Prosodic focus marking in Seoul Korean-speaking children: the use of prosodic phrasing by Yang, Anqi, Cho, Taehong, Kim, Sahyang, Chen, Aoju

“…Prosodic focus marking in Seoul Korean is known to be achieved primarily through prosodic phrasing, different from the use of prosody for this purpose in many…”
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The development of prosodic focus marking in French by Destruel, Emilie, Lalande, Louise, Chen, Aoju

“…French is traditionally described as a language favoring syntactic means to mark focus, yet recent research shows that prosody is also used. We examine how…”
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The effect of female voice on verbal processing by Smorenburg, Laura, Chen, Aoju

“…•Semantically associated primes facilitate the processing of target words.•Absolute reaction times and semantic/associative priming did not show effects of…”
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Musicality and Age Interaction in Tone Development by Rhee, Nari, Chen, Aoju, Kuang, Jianjing

“…Vocal pitch, which involves not only F0 but also multiple covarying acoustic cues is central to linguistic perception and production at various levels of…”
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The role of prosody in interpreting causality in English discourse by Hu, Na, Chen, Aoju, Quené, Hugo, Sanders, Ted J M

“…Previous studies have well established that certain causal connectives encode information about the semantic-pragmatic distinction between different types of…”
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The developmental path to adult-like prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children by Yang, Anqi, Chen, Aoju

“…This study investigates how children acquire prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese. Using a picture-matching game, we elicited spontaneous production of…”
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Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning in a Second Language by Chen, Aoju

“…Recent studies of paralinguistic intonational meaning show that languages differ systematically in how pitch range is used to signal meaning differences,…”
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Prosody in birdsong: A review and perspective by Mol, Carien, Chen, Aoju, Kager, René W.J., ter Haar, Sita M.

“…•Comparative birdsong research should include a prosodic perspective.•Birdsong structure can be compared to the prosodic hierarchy in human language.•Birdsong…”
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Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction by Arnhold, Anja, Chen, Aoju, Järvikivi, Juhani

“…Using a language game to elicit short sentences in various information structural conditions, we found that Finnish 4- to 5-year-olds already exhibit a…”
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Pitch It Right: Using Prosodic Entrainment to Improve Robot-Assisted Foreign Language Learning in School-Aged Children by Molenaar, Bo, Soliño Fernández, Breixo, Polimeno, Alessandra, Barakova, Emilia, Chen, Aoju

“…Robot-assisted language learning (RALL) is a promising application when employing social robots to help both children and adults acquire a language and is an…”
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Language-Specificity in the Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning by Chen, Aoju, Gussenhoven, Carlos, Rietveld, Toni

“…This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code…”
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Tuning information packaging: intonational realization of topic and focus in child Dutch by Chen, Aoju

“…This study examined how four- to five-year-olds and seven- to eight-year-olds used intonation (accent placement and accent type) to encode topic and focus in…”
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What's in a word: Sounding sarcastic in British English by Chen, Aoju, Boves, Lou

“…Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions and…”
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Going beyond F0: The Acquisition of Mandarin Tones by Rhee, Nari, Chen, Aoju, Kuang, Jianjing

“…Using a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, we present evidence from computational modelling of tonal productions from Mandarin-speaking children (4- to 11-years…”
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A proposal for research on the acquisition of prosodic focus marking in diverse languages: A response to Kidd and Garcia (2022) by Chen, Aoju, Narasimhan, Bhuvana

“…Kidd and Garcia demonstrate a dire lack of diversity in language acquisition research. We present a concrete proposal to improve language and area coverage in…”
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The role of auditory and visual cues in the interpretation of Mandarin ironic speech by Li, Shanpeng, Chen, Aoju, Chen, Ying, Tang, Ping

“…Irony is a form of non-literal language. Its decoding may require receivers to use information from both the auditory (e.g., prosody) and visual (e.g., facial…”
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Is there really an asymmetry in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping? by Chen, Aoju

“…This article aims to clarify misunderstandings over the relation between production and comprehension in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping…”
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Comprehension of Focus-to-Accentuation Mapping in Sentences with "Only" by Advanced Cantonese Learners and Dutch Learners of English by Ge, Haoyan, Chen, Aoju, Yip, Virginia

“…This study investigates L2 comprehension of focus-to-accentuation mapping in English sentences with focus particle "only" by advanced learners of English whose…”
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The Acquisition of Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Central Swedish by Romøren, Anna Sara H, Chen, Aoju

“…We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three…”
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