Patrick Chu, PhD

Bibliographies on Cantonese tone research

Below are some interesting papers in this area. We will be updating more papers here soon. If you know some papers in this area that I miss, please fill in the form below and tell me. Thanks. Please feel free to take a look at my research related to Cantonese and Mandarin tone as well. 
  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2013). Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: Implications for a Model of Second Language Word Production and Recognition. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  2. Peggy Mok, Donghui Zuo, & Peggy Wong. (2013) Production and perception of a sound change in progress: tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese. Language Variation and Change, 25: 341-370.
  3. Sam-Po Law, Roxana Fung & Carmen Kung.  (2013). An ERP Study of Good Production vis-à-vis Poor Perception of Tones in Cantonese: Implications for Top-Down Speech Processing.  PLoS ONE 8(1): e54396.
  4. Peggy Mok & Donghui Zuo. (2012) Effects of tone merging and musical training on Cantonese tone perception. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 462-465. Shanghai.
  5. Roxana S.Y. Fung & Cathy S.P. Wong. (2012). The Mandarinization of Hong Kong Cantonese Tones. In J. Shi, Z. Geng, Y. Yang (Eds.), Ontological Studies of the Chinese Language: The Festschrift in Honor of Professor Xue Fengsheng on his 80th Birthday, pp. 289-299.  Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
  6. Roxana Fung, Carmen Kung, Sam-Po Law, I-Fan Su & Cathy Wong. (2012). Near-Merger in Hong Kong Cantonese Tones: A Behavioural and ERP Study. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012), Nanjing, China, 26-29 May 2012.
  7. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2011). Are there six or nine tones in Cantonese? In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), Hong Kong, China, pp. 58-61
  8. Jingwen Li (2011). Acquisition of Mandarin Tones by Cantonese Speakers: A Production Study on Language Transfer. Unpublished MA Thesis. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  9. Zhen Qin & Peggy Mok. (2011) Discrimination of Cantonese tones by Mandarin, English and French speakers. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), 50-53. Hong Kong.
  10. Roxana S.Y. Fung & Cathy S.P. Wong. (2011). The Acoustic Analysis of the New Rising Tone in Hong Kong Cantonese. Proceedings of 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 715-718.
  11. Roxana S.Y. Fung & Jinghua Ou. (2011).  A perceptual study on the rising tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, pp.74-77.
  12. Murray Schellenberg. (2011). Tone Contour Realization in Sung Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1754-1757.
  13. Ka Wai Ku. (2010). Production and Perception of Cantonese Tones by Mandarin-speaking Learners. Unpublished BA Thesis. City University of Hong Kong.
  14. Yuen, Meng, Tan Lee, Kevin C.P. Yuen, Sigfrid Soli, Charles A. van Hasselt, & Michael C.F. Tong. (2009). Cantonese tone recognition with enhanced temporal periodicity cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (1), 327-337.
  15. Anita M.-Y. Wong, Valter Ciocca, & Sun Yung. (2009). The perception of lexical tone contrasts in Cantonese children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52, 1493-1509.
  16. Alexander L. Francis, Valter Ciocca, Lian Ma & Kimberly Fenn. (2008). Perceptual learning of Cantonese lexical tones by tone and non-tone language speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 268-294.
  17. Kevin C.P. Yuen, Meng Yuan, Tan Lee, Sigfrid Soli, Michael C.F. Tong, & Charles A. van Hasselt. (2007). Frequency-specific temporal envelope and periodicity components for lexical tone identification in Cantonese. Ear and Hearing, 28 (2S), 107S-113S.
  18. Edward Khouw & Valter Ciocca. (2006) An Acoustic and Perceptual Study of Cantonese Tones Produced by Profoundly Hearing Impaired Adolescents. Ear and Hearing, 27, 243-255.
  19. Alexander L. Francis, Valter Ciocca, Natalie King Yu Wong, Wilson Ho Yin Leung, & Phoebe Cheuk Yan Chu. (2006).  Extrinsic context affects perceptual normalization of lexical tone.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(3), 1712-1726.
  20. Chung Wa Law. (2006). Tonal Characteristics of Early English-Cantonese Bilinguals. Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Hong Kong. 
  21. Alexander L. Francis, Valter Ciocca and Brenda Kei Chit Ng. (2003) On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones.  Perception & Psychophysics, 65(7), 1029-1044.
  22. Valter Ciocca & Jessica Lui. (2003) The development of the perception of Cantonese lexical tones. The Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 1, 141-147.
  23. Alexander L. Francis & Valter Ciocca. (2003). Stimulus presentation order and the perception of lexical tones in Cantonese.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(3), 1611-1621.
  24. Patrick C.M. Wong & Randy L. Diehl. (2003). Perceptual normalization of inter- and intra-talker variation in Cantonese level tones. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 413-421
  25. Valter Ciocca, Alexander L. Francis, Rani Aisha, & Lena Wong. (2002) The perception of Cantonese lexical tones by early-deafened cochlear implantees. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111(5), 2250-2256.
  26. Kathy Yuet Sheung Lee, Charles A. van Hasselt, Sung Nok Chiu & D.M. Cheung. (2002). Cantonese tone perception ability of cochlear implant children in comparison with normal-hearing children. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 63, 137-147.
  27. Kathy Yuet Sheung Lee, Sung Nok Chiu & Charles A. van Hasselt. (2002) Tone Perception Ability of Cantonese-Speaking Children. Language and Speech, 45, 387-406
  28. Anne Cutler & Hsuan-Chih Chen. (1997) Lexical tone in Cantonese spoken-word processing. Perception & Psychophysics, 59(2), 165-179.
  29. Yuh-Shiow Lee, Douglas A. Vakoch, & Lee H. Wurm. (1996). Tone Perception in Cantonese and Mandarin: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 25, 527-542.
  30. Lydia K.H. So & Barbara Dodd. (1995). The acquisition of phonology by Cantonese speaking children. Journal of Child Language 22: 473-495.
  31. Andrew Tse. (1992). The acquisition process of Cantonese phonology: a case study. MPhil. thesis, University of Hong Kong.
  32. John K.P. Tse. (1978). Tone acquisition in Cantonese: a longitudinal case study. Journal of Child Language, 5 191-204. 

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