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Hong Kong Cantonese provides a fascinating case to the study of prosody because of its rich inventory of sentence-final particles (SFPs) that carry two levels of prosodic information: an inherent lexical tone and intonation. The present study examined the effect of the interaction between tone and intonation on the production of SFPs among native Cantonese speakers.

This study examined the longitudinal relation between early prosodic reading and later reading comprehension ability in Cantonese English-learning elementary school children.

We examine the role of prosodic reading in English reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children by characterizing the acoustic characteristics of bilingual children’s English prosodic production and relating them to their English reading comprehension.