Is Pitch Height or Pitch Contour a Challenge? Production of Mandarin Tones in Hani-Mandarin Bilingual Children.

Purpose: The study aimed to determine the relative difficulty of Mandarin tone production in a classroom setting for native Hani-speaking children and to explore whether these bilingual children's tone production follows the same patterns observed in Mandarin monolingual children. Method: This study...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 3133 - 3155
Main Author:	Aliang Li
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jul2025
Subjects:	China Cross-sectional method Phonetics Language acquisition Multilingualism in children Vowels Consonants Musical perception Descriptive statistics Physiological aspects of speech Speech evaluation Comparative studies Data analysis software Musical pitch
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