Effects of Native Prosodic Features and Musical Experience on Perceiving and Learning Non-Native Lexical Pitch Accents
Grant Data
Project Title
Effects of Native Prosodic Features and Musical Experience on Perceiving and Learning Non-Native Lexical Pitch Accents
Principal Investigator
Professor Tong, Xiuli
(Principal Investigator (PI))
Duration
9
Start Date
2019-09-01
Completion Date
2020-05-31
Amount
464120
Conference Title
Effects of Native Prosodic Features and Musical Experience on Perceiving and Learning Non-Native Lexical Pitch Accents
Keywords
Learning, Lexical Pitch, Lexical Pitch Accents, Musical Experience, Native Prosodic, Perceiving
Discipline
Others - Humanities and Arts
HKU Project Code
N/A
Grant Type
Fulbright Hong Kong Scholar Programme
Funding Year
2019
Status
Completed
Objectives
To investigate how music experience and prosodic backgrounds influence the perception and learning of non-native lexical pitch accents in English and Cantonese adult musicians and non-musicians whose native languages exhibit different levels of similarity to Japanese pitch accents. Experimental tests of music pitch memory, pitch accent perception, pitch-accent word learning, working memory and nonverbal intelligence will be administered to English and Cantonese musicians and non-musicians.