Tag: Cantonese

  • Cantonese Time-Compressed Speech Test: Normative values for young adults

    Lau, C.T.L., McPHERSON, B. and Fuente, A. Cantonese Time-Compressed Speech Test: Normative values for young adults. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing, 15, 197-210. 2012. Cantonese is a Chinese dialect spoken by over 50 million speakers in China and around the world. However, few Cantonese assessment tools for (central) auditory processing disorders are…

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  • Adaptation of the Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap into Cantonese

    Fuente, A., McPHERSON, B., Kwok, E.T.T., Chan, K. and Kramer, S. Adaptation of the Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap into Cantonese. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology, 32(2), 115-126. 2012.  Abstract: This research aimed to adapt the Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap (AIADH) into Cantonese. A total of six Cantonese-English…

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  • Chinese speech audiometry material: Past, present, future

     Ma, X.,McPHERSON, B. and Ma, L. Chinese speech audiometry material: Past, present, future. Hearing, Balance and Communication, 11, 52-63. 2013 Speech audiometry plays an important role in the assessment of hearing abilities, as it may more accurately reflect auditory function in the daily communication environment of listeners than other auditory assessment measures. Speech perception tests…

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  • Executive and language control in the multilingual brain

    Kong, PH Kong, A. P.-H., Abutalebi, J., Lam, K. S.-Y., & Weekes, B. Executive and language control in the multilingual brain. Behavioural Neurology. 2013 DOI: 10.3233/ben-120331 Link to HKU Scholars Hub Abstract: Neuro imaging studies suggest that the neural network involved in language control may not be specific to bi-/multilingualism but part of a domain…

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