Acoustic assessment in mandarin-speaking Parkinson's disease patients and disease progression monitoring and brain impairment within the speech subsystem

Y Diao, H Xie, Y Wang, B Zhao, A Yang… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Approximately 90% of Parkinson's patients (PD) suffer from dysarthria. However, there is
currently a lack of research on acoustic measurements and speech impairment patterns …

Systematic review: The identification of segmental Mandarin-accented English features

H Wang, RA Knight, L Dipper, R Alderton… - Speech …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The pronunciation of L2 English by L1 Mandarin speakers is influenced by
transfer effects from the phonology of Mandarin. However, there is a research gap in …

Bilingual lexical interactions in an unsupervised neural network model

X Zhao, P Li - International Journal of Bilingual Education and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we present an unsupervised neural network model of bilingual lexical
development and interaction. We focus on how the representational structures of the …

Orthographic influences on division of labor in learning to read Chinese and English: Insights from computational modeling

J Yang, H Shu, BD McCandliss… - … : Language and Cognition, 2013 - cambridge.org
Learning to read in any language requires learning to map among print, sound and
meaning. Writing systems differ in a number of factors that influence both the ease and the …

Encoding lexical tones in jTRACE: A simulation of monosyllabic spoken word recognition in Mandarin Chinese

L Shuai, JG Malins - Behavior Research Methods, 2017 - Springer
Despite its prevalence as one of the most highly influential models of spoken word
recognition, the TRACE model has yet to be extended to consider tonal languages such as …

Database of word-level statistics for Mandarin Chinese (DoWLS-MAN)

KD Neergaard, H Xu, JS German… - Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
In this article we present the Database of Word-Level Statistics for Mandarin Chinese
(DoWLS-MAN). The database addresses the lack of agreement in phonological syllable …

Simulating cross-language priming with a dynamic computational model of the lexicon

X Zhao, P Li - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013 - cambridge.org
Cross-language priming is a widely used experimental paradigm in psycholinguistics to
study how bilinguals' two languages are represented and organized. Researchers have …

Chinese translation norms for 1,429 English words

Y Wen, WJB van Heuven - Behavior research methods, 2017 - Springer
We present Chinese translation norms for 1,429 English words. Chinese-English bilinguals
(N= 28) were asked to provide the first Chinese translation that came to mind for 1,429 …

A review of phonological development of Mandarin-speaking children

XX Li, CKS To - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose Research into the phonological development of Chinese children is in its infancy
compared with the relatively extensive data available on the English-speaking population …

Impoverished acoustic input triggers probability-based tone processing in mono-dialectal Mandarin listeners

S Wiener, K Ito - Journal of Phonetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous research on Mandarin spoken word recognition suggests that when processing
lexical tone native listeners tune to various acoustic properties of the incoming signal such …