26 Papers
16 Citations
Si Chen is an academic researcher from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mandarin Chinese & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 23 publications.
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Papers
Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions.
TL;DR: This paper investigated categorical perception of rising and falling pitch contours by tonal and non-tonal listeners, and determined minimum durations needed to perceive both contours and compared to those of production, how stimuli duration affects their perception, whether there is an intrinsic F0 effect and how first language background, duration, directions of pitch and vowel quality interact with each other.
Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in a Trilingual Acquisition Context
TL;DR: The study considers how various factors such as language exposure, structural overlaps in the target languages, typological distance, and language dominance can account for the linguistic abilities and vulnerabilities exhibited by a group of children in a trilingual acquisition context and identifies a specific case of bi-directional influence between the first and second/third languages.
Mechanisms of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Tonal and Non-tonal Non-native Speakers
TL;DR: Functional data analysis revealed that Cantonese and American speakers apply the two sandhi rules similarly on both real words and wug words, suggesting that the sandhi forms are stored as part of the representation of the abstract Tone 3 (T3) category, and computation of allophonic variants is likely to be involved during production.
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Mechanisms of tone sandhi rule application by non-native speakers
Si Chen,Yunjuan He,Chun Wah Yuen,Bei Li,Yike Yang +4 more
- 20 Aug 2017
TL;DR: Functional data analysis showed that non-native speakers applied tone sandhi rules both to real and wug words in a similar manner, indicating that they might utilize a computation mechanism and compute the rules under phonological conditions.
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A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets
Si Chen,Caroline R. Wiltshire,Bin Li,Ratree Wayland +3 more
- 31 Dec 2019
TL;DR: In this article, two statistical modelling methods are first used to quantify the third tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin in which the first falling-rising T3 becomes a rising T2 in the T3 + T3 disyllabic context.
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