Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0880654

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0880654

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Unveiling the mystery of tone perception: How does native language prosody affect adults' perception of foreign tones? This project provides new knowledge about how humans perceive non-native lexical tone categories. The results of this large-scale cross-language study will indicate how native languages constrain human perception of non-native speech (consonants, vowels, intonation). These data will greatly facilitate the research in second language acquisition and teaching, speech perception modeling including automatic speech recognition with tone languages, human speech processing. The findings will also be useful to clinical speech and hearing research for speech and hearing impaired persons, and commercial applications in foreign language teaching, and computer assisted language learning for language learners.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 30-04-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $297,296.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Education across cultures | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Education across cultures | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) | Linguistics

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