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With English as the second language for those who are of Cantonese heritage, study have shown that different age groups with English as a second language are more attentive to different aspects of sentences when listening to others speaking English.[1] Younger children tend to be the most attentive to the information that was provided by the intonation and the stress patterns of the sentence.[1] In contrary, the older children and adults tend to be more attentive to syntactic cues rather than sentence structures.[1] Cantonese heritage speakers has to adjust their sentence structures when speaking in English. The American English Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) showed that Cantonese has a slightly higher proportion of vowels than American English.[2] This is because Chinese syllables often end their sentences in vowels rather than consonants in comparison to American English language.[2][3]
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edit- ^ a b c Harley, Birgit; Ellis, Rod; Johnson, Karen E. (2000). "Listening Strategies in ESL: Do Age and L1 Make a Difference?". TESOL Quarterly. 34 (4): 796–777. doi:10.2307/3587790.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b Wong, Lena L.N. (January 2008). "The Cantonese Hearing in Noise Test". International Journal of Audiology. 47 (6): 388–390. doi:10.1080/14992020701870213.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Goldstein, Tara (January 1997). "Bilingual Life in a Multilingual High School Classroom: Teaching and Learning in Cantonese and English". Canadian Modern Language Review. 53 (2): 356–372. Retrieved February 1, 2016.