Lexical tone is a crucial aspect of tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese, where the pitch or intonation used when pronouncing a word can change its meaning entirely. Recent research has ...

Hong Kong Cantonese is a uniquely complex tongue because of its unapologetically colloquial turns of phrase and liberal use of slang, with all its cultural nuances. While Hong Kong is known for ...

Her biggest tip for people trying to learn Cantonese on their own is to always study while listening to a recording of someone speaking, since this will help them avoid getting the tones wrong.

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Additionally, a pilot study focused on Cantonese-speaking children with CAS examined their abilities in perceiving and producing lexical tones. The findings indicated that while all children ...

In this study, target words are monosyllabic or disyllabic words whose aspirated/unaspirated consonants differ in syllable-initial position, while the vowels and tones are the same. The perception ...