Chinese and English Infants' Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization

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Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “…perception of vowel distinctions (e.g., Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Polka & Werker, 1994), lexical tone differences (e.g., Mattock & Burnham, 2006; Yeung, Chen, &Werker, 2013), and even categorical perception of hand sign (Baker, Golinkoff, & Petitto, 2006; Palmer, Fais,…”
Recognition of Amodal Language Identity Emerges in Infancy (2013, background): “In contrast, it has been found that older infants only perceive native audible-only and visible-only speech, faces, and amodal attributes of speech (Mattock & Burnham, 2006; Pascalis et al., 2002; Pons et al., 2009; Skoruppa et al., 2009; Weikum et al., 2007; Werker & Tees, 1984, 2005).”
Infants' Perception of Intonation: Is It a Statement or a Question? (2014, background): “Lexical tone discrimination performed at 4-6 months whether distinction is native or not, only maintained at 9 months in the former (Mattock & Burnham, 2006; Mattock et al., 2008).”
When does native language input affect phonetic perception? The precocious case of lexical tone (2013, result): “This replicates the results from Mattock and Burnham (2006), who showed that Chineselearners could still discriminate a non-Chinese tone contrast that was acoustically similar to the presently used one (i.e., involving a level-contour contrast).”