LANDMARK PROJECT – Annual Report
Project number: I004
Project title: A cross-language investigation of phonological development: English, Greek, Japanese, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese
Submitting organization: Department of Foreign Languages & Literature Period covered: From98/08/01 to 99/7/31
Grant amount: NT$ 907,840 Grant utilized: NT$ 907,840 Date of report: 99/8/15
Principal investigator and Co-PI’s names, titles and organizations:
PI: Li-mei Chen Associate
Professor National Cheng Kung University Co-PI: Jan Edwards Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA
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1. Itemized goals of the project:
1. Conducting this cross-language study will provide a valuable opportunity to incorporate
Taiwanese data into this milestone study.
2. The cross-linguistic project is conducted with the aim of providing assistance in the therapy of
articulation disorder in children.
2. Achieved ”Landmark” accomplishments directly related to this project and how it is compared to the state-of-the-art (no more than 750 words in total):
1. Conducting this cross-language study will provide an opportunity to incorporate Taiwanese
data into a milestone study.
2. In this international collaborative study, the researchers will have the chance to intensively
and substantially interact with scholars from many different countries (currently the United States, Canada, Greece, France, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Mainland China) in teamwork.
3. Which items stated above are the best in the world, Asia, or Taiwan?
1. The various developmental aspects of phonological acquisition in typical, developing children found in this cross-linguistic study will provide a substantial reference for establishing developmental normality and for developing criteria to assess articulation disorders in various linguistic environments.
2. The study findings will provide a crucial foundation for establishing reasonable diagnoses of articulation disorders, practical therapy plans, and practical expectations for therapy outcomes among children in different linguistic environments, including Taiwanese-learning children.
4. Extramural funding currently active, applied or to be applied for supporting the work or related subjects stated above.
5. Utilization of grant for this year: (Units: Thousand NT Dollars; %)
Category Amount Spent %
Personnel 547,200 100
Consumables 26,554 100
Equipment 228,000 100
Travel Expenses for International Destinations 106,086 100
Total 907,840 100
6. List names of faculty and researchers funded by this project and amount of support. Li-mei Chen NT$ 907,840
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7. Publications by faculty and researchers list above based on work supported by this grant (indicate impact factor, journal ranking and citation number):
Chen, Li-mei & Kent, R. D. (2005). Consonant-vowel co-occurrence patterns in Mandarin-learning infants. Journal of Child Language 32(3), 507-534. (SSCI) Chen, Li-mei & Kent, R. D. (2009). Development of prosodic patterns in
Mandarin-learning infants. Journal of Child Language 36 (1), 73-84. (SSCI) Chen, Li-mei & Kent, R. D. (2009). Segmental development in Mandarin-learning
infants. Journal of Child Language 37 (2), 341-371. (SSCI)
Chen, Li-mei, & Yang, J. C. (2009). Tone acquisition by a prelingually deaf child with a cochlear implant: A longitudinal case study. Language, Literary Studies and
International Studies, 6, 1-12. (THCI, 國科會語言學期刊綜合排序綜合類第 3)
Chao, K.- Y. & Chen, Li-mei (corresponding author) (2008). A cross-linguistic study of voice onset time in stop consonant productions. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 13 (2), 215-231. (THCI)
Peng, J.- F., & Chen, Li-mei (corresponding author) (in press). Tonal effects on voice onset time. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing.
Syrika, A., Nicolaidis, K., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (in review, 2010). Acquisition of initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ sequences in Greek. Submitted to Language and Speech.
Munson, B., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (in press). Phonological representations in language acquisition: Climbing the ladder of abstraction. In A. C. Cohn, C. Fougeron, M. K. Huffman, eds., Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford University Press.
Okalidou, A., Syrika, A., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (in press). Adapting a receptive vocabulary test for preschool-aged Greek-speaking children. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, Jan (in press). Generalizing over lexicons to predict consonant mastery. Submitted to P. Warren & J. Hay, eds., Laboratory Phonology 11
Munson, B., Edwards, J., Schellinger, S., Beckman, M. E., & Meyer, M. (2010).
Deconstructing phonetic transcription: Language-specificity, covert contrast, perceptual bias, and an extraterrestrial view of vox humana. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24: 245-260.
Arbisi-Kelm, T., & Beckman, M. E. (2009). Prosodic structure and consonant
development across languages. In M. Vigário, S. Frota, M. J. Freitas (eds.) Interactions in phonetics and phonology, pp. 109-136. John Benjamins.
Li, F., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (2009). Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers. Journal of Phonetics, 37(1): 111-124. (SSCI)
Edwards, J. & Beckman, M.E. (2008). Some cross-linguistic evidence for modulation of implicational universals by language-specific frequency effects in phonological
development. Language, Learning, and Development, 4, 122-156.
Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (2008). Methodological questions in studying
phonological acquisition. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22(12): 939-958. (SSCI)
Munson, B., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (2005). Relationships between nonword repetition accuracy and other measures of linguistic development in children with
phonological disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 61-78. (SSCI)
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8. List of invited presentations by faculty and researchers shown in item 6:
Chen, Li-mei, Chao, K.- Y., & Peng, J.- F. (2008). Investigation of temporal contrasts: A cross-language study of stop aspiration and place of articulation. 2008 Autumn meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Fukuoka, Japan. Sep. 10-12.
Chen, Li-mei, Chao, K.- Y., Peng, J.- F., & Yang, J.- C. (2008). A cross-language study of stop aspiration. The Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2008), Berkeley, California. Dec.15-17. (invited presentation)
Chen, Li-mei, Peng, J.- F., & Chao, K.- Y. (2009). The effect of lexical tones on voice onset time. The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2009), San Diego, California. Dec. 14-16. (Invited Presentation)
Chen, Li-mei, Hsu, Y.- Y., Kong, E. J., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. (2010). Acquisition of stops in Taiwanese. 31st annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders in Madison, Wisconsin, June 3-5.
Chen, Li-mei, Hsiao, H.- Y., & Fang, T. (2010). Voice onset time of word-initial stops of children from 9 to 45 months of age. Proceedings of 2010 Autumn meeting of the
Acoustical Society of Japan, Kansai, Japan. Sep. 14-16.
9. List all currently funded contracts and grants for PI and each faculty and researchers funded by the project shown in item 8.
PI: NSC general research project (Development of vowel production: a longitudinal study 2003-2012)
Co-PI:
National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders NIDCD Grant 02932 (A cross-linguistic investigation of phonological development)
NSF Grant project BCS-0729306, BCS-0729140, & BCS-0729277 (Dynamics of Human Behavior/Collaborative Research: Using machine learning to model the interplay of production dynamics and perception dynamics in phonological acquisition)
10. Appendices (reprints of most important recent papers related to this project published by PI & Co-PIs)
