Publications

(*PhD student, ^undergraduate student)

2024:

  • Choi, W. (in press). Do Cantonese listeners have a non-native advantage in English stress-related lexical decision? Second Language Research.
  • Choi, W., Lai, V. K. W., Kong, S., & Bautista, A. (2025). Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese-English bilingual children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 249, 106069. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106069
  • Choi, W., ^*Ling, C. L. K., & ^Wu, C. H. J. (2024). Musical advantage in lexical tone perception hinges on musical instrument: A comparison between pitched musicians, unpitched musicians, and non-musicians. Music Perception, 41(5), 360-377. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2024.41.5.360

2023:

  • Choi, W., & Tsui, K. Y. R. (2023). Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional Transfer Hypothesis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(4), 1056-1073. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000511
  • Choi, W., ^To, C. Y., & *Cheng, R. (2023). The choice of musical instrument matters: Effect of pitched but not unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(5),844-857. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000358
  • Choi, W., & Lai, V. K. W. (2023). Does musicianship influence the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(2), 852-862. doi:10.1121/100.0020579
  • Choi, W., & Chiu, M. M. (2023). Why aren’t all Cantonese tones equally confusing to English Listeners? Language and Speech, 66(4), 870-895. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221139789

2022:

  • Choi, W. (2022). What is ‘music’ in music-to-language transfer? Musical ability but not musicianship supports Cantonese listeners’ English stress perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65, 4047-4059. doi:10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00175
  • Choi, W. (2022). Theorizing positive transfer in cross-linguistic speech perception: The Acoustic-Attentional-Contextual hypothesis. Journal of Phonetics, 91, 101135. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101135
  • Choi, W. (2022). Towards a native OPERA hypothesis: Musicianship and English stress perception. Language and Speech, 65(3), 697-712. doi:10.1177/00238309211049458

2021:

  • Choi, W. (2021). Musicianship influences language effect on musical pitch perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 712753. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712753
  • Choi, W. (2021). Cantonese advantage on English stress perception: Constraints and neural underpinnings. Neuropsychologia, 158, 107888. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107888

2020:

  • Choi, W. (2020). Review of research in deaf education: Contexts, challenges, and considerations. Deafness & Education International. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/14643154.2020.1816596
  • Choi, W. (2020). The selectivity of musical advantage: Musicians exhibit perceptual advantage for some but not all Cantonese tones. Music Perception, 37(5), 423-434. doi:10.1525/mp.2020.37.5.423

2019:

  • Choi, W., Tong, X, & Samuel, A. G. (2019). Better than native: Tone language experience enhances second language English lexical stress discrimination in Cantonese-English bilinguals. Cognition, 189, 188-192. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.004
  • Deng, Q., Choi, W., & Tong, X. (2019). Bidirectional cross-linguistic association of phonological skills and reading comprehension: Evidence from Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual readers. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52(4), 299-311. doi:10.1177/0022219419842914
  • Choi, W., Tong, X., & Deacon, S. H. (2019). From Cantonese lexical tone awareness to second language English vocabulary: Cross-language mediation by segmental phonological awareness. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(6), 1875-1889. doi:10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-17-0323

2018:

  • Tong, X.†, Choi, W.†[co-first author], & Man, Y. Y. (2018). Tone language experience modulates the effect of long-term musical training on musical pitch perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(2),690-697. doi:10.1121/1.5049365
  • Choi, W., Tong, X., Law, K. K. S., & Cain, K. (2018). Within- and cross-language contributions of morphological awareness to word reading development in Chinese-English bilingual children. Reading and Writing, 31(8), 1787-1820. doi:10.1007/s11145-017-9770-0

2017:

  • Choi, W., Tong, X., & Singh, L. (2017). From lexical tone to lexical stress: A cross-language mediation model for Cantonese children learning English as a second language. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 492. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00492
  • Choi, W., Tong, X., Gu, F., Tong, X., & Wong, L. (2017). On the early neural perceptual integrality of tones and vowels. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 41, 11-23. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.003
  • Choi, W., Tong, X., & Deacon, H. (2017). Double dissociations in reading comprehension difficulties among Chinese-English bilinguals and their association with tone awareness. Journal of Research in Reading, 40(2), 184-198. doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12077

2016:

  • Choi, W., Tong, X., & Cain, K. (2016). Lexical prosody beyond first-language boundary: Chinese lexical tone sensitivity predicts English reading comprehension. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 148, 70-86. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.04.002