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Although typological differences of a tone language vs. a non-tonal language are well-documented, lexical tones have received increasing attention because of the special position as the phonemically contrastive suprasegmental feature (Yip, [7]). This shared cue with its overlapping neural substrates across domains iterates the possibility for driving reciprocal influences between music and language such that a musical advantage in lexical tone processing is frequently reported (Zhu et al., [9]). Keywords: Chinese lexical tones; acoustic information; phonological information; music-language relationship; multimodel processing EN Chinese lexical tones acoustic information phonological information music-language relationship multimodel processing N.PAG N.PAG 3 05/13/21 20210510 NES 210510 Liu, Huei-Mei Tsao, Feng-Ming Li, Ping 2020 Singapore Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 9789811576058 (Print ISBN) 9789811576065 (Online ISBN) In recent decades, a surge of interest in Chinese languages has been observed among scholars worldwide, yet a question remains to be rarely asked: why do we research Chinese languages?. [Extracted from the article]

In contrast, the usage-based theorists claim that language development is the product of language input as well as children's internal learning mechanism which is domain-general (Lieven, [3]). Keywords: child language acquisition; usage-based; grammatical constructions; levels of variation; language disorders EN child language acquisition usage-based grammatical constructions levels of variation language disorders 1 2 2 06/29/21 20210625 NES 210625 Rowland, Caroline F. Theakston, Anna L. Ambridge, Ben Twomey, Katherine E. Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How Children Use Their Environment to Learn 2020 Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA John Benjamins Publishing Company 9789027207074 9789027261007 Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge, and Katherine E. Twomey (Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company), 2020, 330 pages, ISBN: 9789027207074 (hardback), 9789027261007 (e-book) For child language development, the nature vs. nurture debate has been ongoing for a long time, but neither side is presumably persuaded by the other side. [Extracted from the article]