Ao Chen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ao Chen plays a role.
Articles
2023 Native language, L2 experience, and pitch processing in music Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:2, pp. 218–237 | Article
The current study investigated how the role of pitch in one’s native language and L2 experience influenced musical melodic processing by testing Turkish and Mandarin Chinese advanced and beginning learners of English as an L2. Pitch has a lower functional load and shows a simpler pattern in… read more
2022 Simultaneous bilinguals who do not speak a tone language show enhancement in pitch sensitivity but not in executive function Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3, pp. 310–346 | Article
Previous studies have reported perceptual advantages, such as when discriminating non-native linguistic or musical pitch differences, among first-year infants growing up in bilingual over monolingual environments. It is unclear whether such effects should be attributed to bilinguals’ enhanced… read more
2017 Perception of tones in Mandarin and Dutch adult listeners Language and Linguistics 18:4, pp. 622–646 | Article
This paper examines the nature of categorical perception (CP) effects in Mandarin and Dutch adult listeners through identification and discrimination tasks using lexical tonal contrasts and through the CP index analysis. In identification tasks, Mandarin listeners identify tones in accordance… read more