Research in first language development draws disproportionately from nontone languages.
Such research is often presumed to reveal developmental universals in spite of the fact that …

Fundamental frequency (ƒ 0), perceived as pitch, is the first and arguably most salient
auditory component humans are exposed to since the beginning of life. It carries multiple …

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 language, age and language …

The conclusions on prosodic pitch features in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have
primarily been derived from studies in non-tonal language speakers. This cross-linguistic …

The majority of the world's languages exploit consonants, vowels and lexical tones to
contrast the meanings of individual words. However, the majority of experimental research …

Abstract In English and Dutch, listeners entrain to prosodic contours to predict where focus
will fall in an utterance. Here, we ask whether this strategy is universally available, even in …

This study investigates cue-weighting differences in intonation perception between tonal
and non-tonal languages, specifically focusing on how native Spanish listeners and …

This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has
lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language. In …

Background Accessing professional medical interpreters for brief, low risk exchanges can be
challenging. Machine translation (MT) for verbal communication has the potential to be a …

Studies on how the form versus function aspect of tone and intonation is processed by
autistic individuals have mainly focused on speakers of non-tonal languages (eg, English) …