Search Results - "Kager, René"

Perception of tones by infants learning a non-tone language by Liu, Liquan, Kager, René

“…•A U-shaped developmental trajectory for non-tone-learning infants’ perception of tones.•The strength of discrimination is dependent on contrast salience.•The…”
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Monolingual and Bilingual Infants' Ability to Use Non-native Tone for Word Learning Deteriorates by the Second Year After Birth by Liu, Liquan, Kager, René

“…Previous studies reported a non-native word learning advantage for bilingual infants at around 18 months. We investigated developmental changes in infant…”
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Statistical learning of speech sounds is most robust during the period of perceptual attunement by Liu, Liquan, Kager, René

“…•Unimodal distribution did not hinder 5-month-olds’ non-native tonal discrimination.•Bimodal distribution facilitates 11-month-olds’ non-native tonal…”
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How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? by Kager, René

“…Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone…”
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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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Avoiding stress on non-lexical material in nouns and verbs: predictable verb prosody in Serbo-Croatian stress standard varieties by Simonović, Marko, Kager, René

“…We consider two asymmetries reported in the literature on word prosodic systems: the tendency to allow more prosodic contrast in nouns than in verbs and the…”
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Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing by Pinget, Anne-France, Kager, René, Van de Velde, Hans

“…This study investigates the link between the perception and production in sound change in progress, both at the regional and the individual level. Two…”
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Pitch Perception in the First Year of Life, a Comparison of Lexical Tones and Musical Pitch by Chen, Ao, Stevens, Catherine J, Kager, René

“…Pitch variation is pervasive in speech, regardless of the language to which infants are exposed. Lexical tone is influenced by general sensitivity to pitch. We…”
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Effects of bilingualism on cue weighting: How do bilingual children perceive the Dutch [ɑ]-[a:] contrast? by Kajouj, Fatima, Kager, René

“…The effects of bilingualism on vowel perception and cue weighting behaviour have not been established definitively. What influence does heritage bilingualism…”
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The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life by Wang, Luchang, Kager, René, Wong, Patrick C. M.

“…The acoustic properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) have been widely studied, but whether and how young learners’ language development benefits from…”
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Categorical phonotactic knowledge filters second language input, but probabilistic phonotactic knowledge can still be acquired by Lentz, Tomas O., Kager, René W. J.

“…Probabilistic phonotactic knowledge facilitates perception, but categorical phonotactic illegality can cause misperceptions, especially of non-native phoneme…”
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Using Open-Source Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for the Annotation of Dutch Infant-Directed Speech by van der Klis, Anika, Adriaans, Frans, Han, Mengru, Kager, René

“…There is a large interest in the annotation of speech addressed to infants. Infant-directed speech (IDS) has acoustic properties that might pose a challenge to…”
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Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Infant-Directed Speech: Age-Related Changes in the Second Year of Life by Han, Mengru, de Jong, Nivja H, Kager, René

“…Tonal information is essential to early word learning in tone languages. Although numerous studies have investigated the intonational and segmental properties…”
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The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report by Kalashnikova, Marina, Singh, Leher, Tsui, Angeline, Altuntas, Eylem, Burnham, Denis, Cannistraci, Ryan, Chin, Ng Bee, Feng, Ye, Fernández‐Merino, Laura, Götz, Antonia, Gustavsson, Lisa, Hay, Jessica, Höhle, Barbara, Kager, René, Lai, Regine, Liu, Liquan, Marklund, Ellen, Nazzi, Thierry, Oliveira, Daniela Santos, Olstad, Anne Marte Haug, Picaud, Anthony, Schwarz, Iris‐Corinna, Tsao, Feng‐Ming, Wong, Patrick C. M., Woo, Pei Jun

“…We report the findings of a multi‐language and multi‐lab investigation of young infants’ ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native…”
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Phonotactics as phonology: knowledge of a complex restriction in Dutch by Kager, René, Pater, Joe

“…The Dutch lexicon contains very few sequences of a long vowel followed by a consonant cluster whose second member is a non-coronal. We provide experimental…”
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Constraints in Phonological Acquisition by Kager, René, Pater, Joe, Zonneveld, Wim

“…This outstanding 2004 volume presents an overview of linguistic research into the acquisition of phonology. Bringing together well-known researchers in the…”
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Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread by Breteler, Jeroen, Kager, René

“…We identify evidence supporting two amendments to standard metrical theory: the inclusion of layered feet, and the allowance of syllable-integrity violations,…”
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Discrimination of Lexical Tones in the First Year of Life by Chen, Ao, Kager, René

“…In the current study, we examined the developmental course of the perception of non‐native tonal contrast. We tested 4, 6 and 12‐month‐old Dutch infants on…”
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Stress in windows: Language typology and factorial typology by Kager, René

“…► This paper presents the first ever large-scale typology of metrical window systems; it is informed by two typological databases, as well as by additional…”
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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language by Chen, Ao, Liu, Liquan, Kager, René

“…The current study explores how language experience may shape the correlation between lexical tone and musical pitch perception. A two domains (music and…”
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