Native Judges Research Articles

Blue skies: Does the visual composition of sky guide subjective judgments of naturalness in the environment?

Expanding on previous findings, that highlighted the significance of sky in environmental perception, our analysis investigated whether the visual composition of the sky shapes perceptions of environmental naturalness. The study employed a novel, free-selection task in which participants viewed a series of environmental images with varying levels of natural and urban elements, as well as different sky visibility conditions, and were asked to identify “nature” within these images. The task procedure also involved subjective ratings of each scene. Using previously gathered data, we reassessed 105 participants' selection of the sky as “nature” across 96 photos of diverse outdoor scenes to understand which visuospatial features influence these perceptions. Utilizing the Boruta feature selection algorithm, we identified key characteristics—fractal dimensions, brightness, and entropy in brightness, hue, and saturation—that significantly predicted the selection of sky as “nature”, irrespective of the environment type (urban or natural). Results indicated that lower fractal dimensions are preferred for sky selected as “nature”, inversely affecting the naturalness judgment of scenes with the additional effect of brightness. These findings enhance our understanding of how visuospatial features influence environmental perception, offering implications for future research directions and theoretical advancements in understanding environmental perception.

Публицистика А.И. Солженицына как средство культурфилософской коммуникации

Journalism is traditionally considered as one of the means of effective communication. At the same time, writers often use a journalistic word to broadcast their ideological position regarding socio-cultural phenomena, respectively expressing original judgments of a cultural-philosophical nature. Among such authors is undoubtedly the outstanding Russian writer, thinker, historian, researcher of cultural and philosophical aspects of Russian history, public figure Alexander Solzhenitsyn (11.12.1918–03.08.2009), whose 105 th birthday is celebrated this year. The purpose of this article is to consider what cultural philosophical ideas this writer communicated to contemporaries and future generations in his journalistic works. The methodological basis of the research was made up of general scientific and interdisciplinary methods, as well as cultural analysis and cultural and philosophical tradition. According to the results of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that A. I. Solzhenitsyn actively used his journalistic works for cultural and philosophical communication with readers, which was expressed in philosophical and cultural reflection on such phenomena as, for example, freedom, nation, truth and lies, morality, morality, spirituality.

“Judgments of Nature”: James Wilson's Natural-Law Jurisprudence

AbstractCan and should judges refer to the natural law? I address these questions from the point of view of James Wilson, paying specific attention to a question the scholarship does not address: Why does Wilson believe judges can (and must), in certain instances, refer to natural law? I develop a new taxonomy of Wilson's conception of judgment that answers this question. Wilson's definition of judgment as including the moral sense and reason, and his division of reasoning into demonstrative, moral, and legal reasoning, indicate why he countenances judicial recourse to natural law in certain cases yet remains committed to popular sovereignty and judicial restraint. Wilson describes “judgments of nature” as intuitive judgments based on self-evident truths and articulates how judges might be called upon to make certain judgments based on a manifest repugnancy to the natural law. His judicial decisions confirm this commitment to natural law and judicial restraint.

‟WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE! WHAT A LANGUAGE!..” RUSSIAN CRITICISM OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY ON THE BOUNDARIES OF ‟ETHICAL” AND ‟DECENT” IN THE DRAMATURGY OF A.N. OSTROVSKY

The article highlights the problem of moral and aesthetic evaluation of the works of A.N. Ostrovsky in literary criticism of Russia in the second half of the 19th century. On the material of newspaper and magazine reviews published in the 1850s–70s, contradictions are revealed between the ethical and aesthetic expectations of the reading audience and the artistic innovations of A.N. Ostrovsky in depicting scenes of everyday reality. The article attempts to generalize critical judgments of moral and aesthetic nature, outline the range of issues and claims against the author, and track their influence on the playwright’s work.

Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian.

This article focuses on the choice of nominal forms in a language with articles (Catalan) in comparison to a language without articles (Russian). An experimental study (consisting of various naturalness judgment tasks) was run with speakers of these two languages which allowed to show that in bridging contexts native speakers' preferences vary when reference is made to one single individual or to two disjoint referents. In the former case, Catalan speakers chose (in)definite NPs depending on their accessibility to contextual information that guarantees a unique interpretation (or the lack of it) for the entity referred to. Russian speakers chose bare nominals as a default form. When reference is made to two disjoint referents (as encoded by the presence of an additional altre/drugoj "other" NP), speakers prefer an optimal combination of two indefinite NPs (i.e., un NP followed by un altre NP in Catalan; odin "some/a" NP followed by drugoj NP in Russian). This study shows how speakers of the two languages manage to combine grammatical knowledge (related to the meaning of the definite and the indefinite articles and altre in Catalan; and the meaning of bare nominals, odin and drugoj in Russian) with world knowledge activation and accessibility to discourse information.

Gender-Neutral Pronouns He and They

This paper attempts to investigate the Korean EFL students’ understanding of singular they in comparison with gender-neutral he. When it comes to the choice of third person singular pronouns in gender-indeterminant contexts, prescriptive grammar prefers gender-neutral he, while descriptive grammar recommends singular they, among other alternative pronoun forms. As grammar books and guideline sources gradually adopt singular they as a proper, or a better, pronoun candidate compared to gender-neutral he, an experimental study was designed to examine how Korean learners of English acquire this recent language change in EFL contexts. In a naturalness judgment task, the Korean EFL learners judged singular they in informal contexts as less natural than in formal contexts and even as unnatural when the antecedents included ‘every/any,’ though it has been reported that native speakers prefer singular they in informal contexts rather than in formal contexts.

Abuse of law as a form of opposition to the implementation of the law in the context of modern scientific discourse and law enforcement practice

The subject of the article is the abuse of law as a phenomenon of legal reality, its definition, the patterns of its arising and developing in legal relations, the consequences of abuse of law established in the prescribed manner.The purpose of the research is to confirm or refute the theoretical hypothesis about the nature, as well as of the role and the functional load of abuse of law, to obtain the conformation of the theoretical judgment of praxeological nature and the conclusions.Methodology. In achieving the purpose and the corresponding research tasks the dialectical method's instruments were used, which made it possible to establish the relationships between the formally expressed normative uncertainties and the difficulties of their practical implementation, to find structural and functional conclusions in legal behavior and its consequences. The opportunities provided by comparative legal, formal legal, historical and legal methods of the cognition were widely used.The main results and the scope. The analysis of the given problems showed that despite of the prevalence in relations regulated by various law branches and the frequent reference to it among scholars, it was not possible to develop the unanimous approach to understanding of the abuse of law. This is partly due to the two main factors: (a) the uncertainty and evaluativeness of this phenomenon; (b) the desire to develop a unique interpretation of the right's abuse by an individual researcher.Thus, the unique and extraordinary options of understanding of abuse of law have been developed. Often they do not correspond to the practice of its application and not fit the legal science system's categories and its knowledge. The current situation leads to the confusion in the research and ideas blurring of established legal constructions. In addition, theoretical knowledge that has no outlet to practice loses their importance and does not contribute the simplification of practical activities to implementing the law. The main conclusions of the research are expressed in the provisions that the abuse of law plays the role of legal fact, associated with the onset of harmful consequences or the threat of their occurrence. It demonstrates the desire of the abuser to obtain benefits of different nature by leveling legal requirements, in their complex misconduct. The abuse of law either acts as a way of committing an offense and constitutes the objective side of the act, or has an independent meaning, causes the application of legal responsibility, if it acts as a method of committing an offense, and measures of legal protection, if it has an independent meaning, the legal structure of law abuse does not include a duty and looks like this: subjective law – the exercise of subjective right – the limits of the exercise of subjective right – illegal act – the onset of harmful consequences or the threat of their occurrence – measures of responsibility or protection measures.

The Effect of Chinese Proficiency on Determining Temporal Adverb Position by Native Japanese Speakers Learning Chinese.

The present study aimed to investigate how native Japanese speakers learning Chinese choose preferred positions for temporal adverbs depending on their level of Chinese proficiency. A naturalness judgment task conducted on native Chinese speakers showed that the most natural position for Chinese temporal adverbs was before the subject and that placement after the locative prepositional phrase was incorrect. The same task applied to native Japanese speakers found the most natural position for Japanese temporal adverbs was also before the subject. Further, when they appear at the beginning of a sentence, they provide the time for the entire sentence. Accordingly, temporal topicalization appears to influence naturalness decisions by both native Chinese and Japanese speakers. A point of difference was that in Japanese, a temporal adverb placed after a locative prepositional phrase was judged to be acceptable. When the same task was given to native Japanese speakers learning Chinese divided into three Chinese proficiency level groups, placement before the subject was the most preferred by the higher Chinese proficiency group. In addition, placement after the locative prepositional phrase was unfavored by them while the same position was frequently selected by the lower level group. As Chinese proficiency increases it appears that the preferred temporal adverb position is before the subject and the placement after the locative prepositional is judged to be unnatural. Thus, a sense of suitable temporal adverb positions in Chinese is influenced by the level of Chinese proficiency of native Japanese speakers.

ТЕМПОРАЛЬНІСТЬ У КООРДИНАТАХ СОЦІАЛЬНО-ТРУДОВОГО РОЗВИТКУ-ХХІ: ПРИРОДА ТА ДРАЙВЕРИ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ

The quintessence of the article is the author’s concept of temporality and the argumentation of the hypothesis regarding the need to transform fragmentary judgments of a spatio-temporal nature in the field of social and labor development into a coherent system of knowledge that covers the temporal essence and temporal dimension of phenomena and processes in social and labor sphere, revealing the nature of “time crisis”, contain theoretical and practical foundations for improving temporal processes management. The research carried out is of a pioneering nature, in which a new approach and non-traditional view on social and labor issues through the prism of spatio-temporal perception of phenomena and processes are implemented. The proposed theoretical-applied construct of temporality opens up new facets of complex, multi-vector drivers of social and labor dynamics in the modern digital age. Philosophical, theoretical, and methodological foundations, arguments, and conclusions, which are the content of this article, relating to the general phenomenon of temporality and its leading varieties – technological, economic, and social. Variants of combining parameters of economic, technological, and social temporality are revealed. The circle of temporal trends that appear as paradoxes of “social time” is outlined. Invariant approaches to the introduction of non-standard time models of employment as an economic form of manifestation of temporality with the identification of modes of duration of working time by the length of the working day, working week, and number of working days per week are proposed. The current state and prospects for the introduction of various (non-standard) working time regimes are considered in the context of J. M. Keynes’s well-known forecast of the transition to 3-hour shifts by 2030.

Between Sound and Voice: Teaching Chinese Tones To Non-Tonal Language Speakers

The production of highly intelligible syllables in Mandarin Chinese entails a successful production of tones, which poses a challenge for learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The aim of the current paper is to address this issue by identifying the key tonal features contributing to tone intelligibility in the lexemes produced by Polish learners of Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. Samples of Polish female students’ tonal pronunciations at two stages of learning were selected and compared with productions made by a female native speaker of Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan. Four syllables produced by the students were selected from a corpus of read-out passages which had already been assessed for the intelligibility of monosyllabic lexemes by native judges. The students’ pronunciation samples (whose pronunciation improved from the A1 minus language level to A2) were analysed using pitch, fundamental frequency contour, and register span criteria, and then compared to the female native speaker’s pronunciations of the same syllables. Importantly, before the results of this analysis are presented, the simplified model of tones widely used in language instruction is compared and contrasted with the acoustic analysis of tonal productions made by the native speaker. This is done to show to what extent the simplified, widely used model reflects real-life tonal productions.

The Content of the Concept of «Conclusion» in the Civil Process

The article analyzes the problems associated with the content and scope of the concept of «conclusion» in civil procedural law. The absence of a definition of the concept of «conclusion» in the current legislation is noted, as well as the discussion that exists in the scientific literature on this issue. Attention is drawn to the application of this concept to procedural institutions of various contents (expert opinion and opinion in accordance with Articles 45 and 47 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation). The aim of the study is to establish the content of the general concept of «conclusion» in the civil process by formulating its definition. To achieve this goal, the author has set the task of identifying differences between different types of conclusions in the civil process. The author also set the task of identifying common features that both expert opinions and conclusions have in accordance with Articles 45 and 47 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. In the framework of this study, methods such as the analysis method, as well as system-structural and formal-legal methods were applied. The content of the procedural rules in their totality and comparison, including the norms of other procedural branches of law, is analyzed. The application of the above methods allowed us to fully achieve the goals and objectives of the study, to formulate scientifically based conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the author gives a general definition of the concept of «conclusion» in civil procedure law, applicable to all types of opinions that exist within the framework of the norms of the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. Attention is drawn to the nature of the conclusion as a judgment of an evaluative nature. As signs of a conclusion in a civil process, its subject (the subject of civil process) and a specific procedural form are named.

Development of SC-10: A psychometrically equivalent Singapore Mandarin disyllabic word list for clinical speech audiometry use.

ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to develop and evaluate a set of psychometrically equivalent disyllabic wordlist (SC-10) in Singapore Mandarin for clinical use.Study designA preliminary set of 1000 words were obtained from a dictionary of frequently used words by Singapore students. Ten native judges rate the familiarity level of each word. This is followed by a face-to-face public survey to rank the shortlisted word set from most to least familiar. The final 108 disyllabic words were recorded by a native female talker. 20 normal hearing subjects were used to obtain the percentage of correct word recognition at 24 intensity levels (−10 dB HL to 26 dB HL in 2 dB increment). Psychometric function slopes were calculated for each word. 100 words were eventually chosen and assigned into ten 10-word lists based on a psychometric balancing protocol. Minor digital adjustments were made to the intensity of each wordlist to improve their auditory homogeneity.The developed SC-10 wordlists were validated by a separate group of 25 normal hearing subjects. Test-retest reliability was carried out on 20 out of 25 participants at the selected intensity levels (SRT-5, SRT, SRT+5).ResultsThe calculated regression slopes in the psychometric functions for the ten lists are between 8.0 and 9.8%/dB. Single factor ANOVA analysis showed no significant difference in both the mean intensity required to obtain 50% recognition score (f = 0.109, df = 9, p = 0.999) and the slopes of the psychometric functions (f = 0.078, df = 9, p = 0.999) between the ten word lists. List validation on 25 normal hearing participants (PTA = 11.0 dB HL, SD = 4.3) showed a mean speech recognition threshold (SRT) of 9.3 dB HL (SD = 3.5)and regression slope of 8.395%/dB. Quadratic regression analysis showed a positive correlation (r2 = 0.923) between presentation level and word recognition score (WRS). The difference between PTA and SRT of each subject all fall within the clinically acceptable difference of 10 dB HL. Test-retest reliability, carried out on 20 subjects at three levels (SRT-5, SRT, and SRT+5 dB), showed no significance difference between word recognition score when the same participant is tested again at the same intensity level using a different wordlist.ConclusionAll in all, it shows that the SC-10 speech materials are valid for clinical use for Mandarin speech audiometry in Singapore.

The essence of the wandering man Study on the Triple Definition of Marx's Human Nature Based on Dialectics

There are three definitions of human nature, that is, essence of labor, essence of the sum of all social relations and essence of human need. In fact, judgment of human nature does not need absolute answer, but dialectical thinking. The study of triple definition of human nature and exploration and discussion of dialectics as basic research method, it is concluded that Marx's definition of human nature is only in sense of existentialism rather than ontology. It lays a theoretical foundation for exploring human nature at level of ontology.

Speech timing changes accompany speech entrainment in aphasia

BackgroundPrior speech entrainment studies, where individuals with non-fluent aphasia mimic an audio-visual model, suggest speech entrainment improves speech fluency, as indexed by various linguistic measures (e.g., the total number of different words produced per minute). Here, more precise speech timing adjustments accompanying entrained speech were studied and compared to spontaneous speech to determine how these temporal variables relate to the fluency inducing effects of speech entrainment in aphasia. MethodsThirty-one left hemisphere stroke survivors classified with fluent or non-fluent speech were audio-video recorded as they described a picture and during speech entrainment. Speech fluency was documented using the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised. Acoustic measures of speech timing included total number of syllables, speech rate, articulatory rate, silent pause frequency and duration. Standard descriptive statistics and a two-factor mixed model analysis of variance were used to investigate group, task, and ‘group x task’ interaction effects. FindingsAll acoustic measures of speech timing differentiated the fluent and nonfluent groups except for silent pause frequency. Differences between speech entrainment and spontaneous speech were found for most acoustic measures of speech timing and speaker groups, yet the direction of the effect varied. Stroke survivors classified with non-fluent aphasia improved speech fluency such that speech entrainment elicited pause adjustments facilitating more typical speech timing in comparison to spontaneous speech. ConclusionOverall, findings provide further evidence of the impact of speech entrainment on measures of speech timing to help individuals with non-fluent aphasia to practice speaking more fluently. Practicing speaking more fluently may ultimately impact perceptual judgments of speech naturalness and social acceptance for persons with aphasia.

ПРИНЦИП ПРИРОДНОГО СУДУ: АКТУАЛЬНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ПРАВОРОЗУМІННЯ ТА ПРАВОЗАСТОСУВАННЯ В УКРАЇНІ

In 2016, a provision appeared in Article 125 of the Basic Law, which stipulated that higher specialized courts may operate in accordance with the law. Filling the content of this wording in, Article 31 of the Law "On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges" (2016) establishes that in the judicial system there are higher specialized courts as courts of first instance to consider certain categories of cases. This category of courts today includes the High Court of Intellectual Property and the High Anti-Corruption Court, activities of which are initiated by the relevant legislation. However, in political circles there was a discussion about the constitutionality of this court and, accordingly, the subject of the right to a constitutional petition questioned a number of provisions of the Law "On the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court" and appealed to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to declare this law unconstitutional. In turn, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine initiated constitutional proceedings on this issue. Familiarization with the legal position of the subject of the constitutional petition indicates that the key issue of this constitutional proceeding concerns the presence of signs of a "special court" (within the meaning of Part 6 of Article 125 of the Constitution of Ukraine) in the mechanism of legislative regulation of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court. In order to find an objective answer to the existing conflict, it is necessary to abstractly identify the main features of a "special" court. To solve such an applied problem, the author of the article turned to the theory and applied provisions of the principle of natural judgment, which was the subject of this study. As a result of the study, the author argues that by giving the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court exclusive jurisdiction over the system of general courts, the legislator has significantly deviated from the permissible limits of constitutional legality. The author singled out and grouped the key features of a special court, which included: 1) Separation of a judicial institution with a separate system of instances for consideration of certain categories of cases selected from the general array (special jurisdiction) or in respect to a separate category of persons. 2) The court, which is entrusted with special, different from other general courts, the purpose and objectives of the activity. 3) A court formed to expedite the resolution of certain categories of cases specific to a certain period; 4) A court in which judges have a special legal status (special tasks in the administration of justice; special professional qualifications (requirements, selection criteria); a special (extraordinary) procedure for the formation of the judiciary, etc. It is seen that the principle of natural judgment – is a fundamental constitutional and legal heritage of civilized humanity, which is designed to protect people, their rights and freedoms from the arbitrariness of the state, and from the use of courts as an instrument of terror and wrongful persecution.

Kant’s conception of life and the limits of a discursive intellect

ABSTRACT Kant’s account of natural teleology has recently garnered significant interest, though there is little consensus regarding either Kant’s aim or whether this account coheres with the rest of his critical project. I argue that Kant’s position on natural teleology is only intelligible against the backdrop of his account of conceptual synthesis in the B-Edition of the Transcendental Deduction, in the Critique of Pure Reason, and, more generally, his account of ‘transcendental logic’. Viewed in this light, I argue that we must see Kant as committed to the seemingly implausible claim that there can be no objective ground for the distinction between the living and the non-living, and that, consequently, there could be no possible occasion for the—even regulative—deployment of natural teleological judgment. I argue, further, that this suggests that Kant’s discussion of natural teleology plays a far more significant role in his larger critical project than is commonly understood.

The Judgment Of The Criminal Action Of Narcotics In Islamic Law Perspective And Human Rights Protection

The formulations of the problems in this research are: What is the basis for the judge's consideration in making a decision regarding the crime of narcotics abuse in the Pekalongan District Court? And how is the court's decision regarding narcotics crime based on the decision of the Pekalongan District Court from the perspective of Islamic law and protection of human rights human?The research carried out in this thesis is normative legal research, namely research on problems by looking at the prevailing regulations. The approach method used is normative legal research which is literature research, namely research on secondary data.The results of the research were as follows: Whereas narcotics crime is a crime, for this reason, a set of laws that regulate criminal sanctions for narcotics abuse is needed, namely: Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. The purpose of making Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics is to prevent the occurrence of narcotics abuse and to eradicate illicit narcotics trafficking. The formulation of offenses in the aforementioned law focuses on the abuse and distribution of narcotics starting from cultivation, production, distribution, traffic to the users, not on assets obtained from criminal acts. The basis for consideration of judges in making decisions are: Judgments of a judicial nature, considerations of a non-judicial nature, and things that are burdensome and alleviate the crime. Judges must not only be based on statutory regulations, but must pay attention to the general feelings and opinions of the community.Keywords: Narcotics Crime, Islamic Law, Human Rights

Development of Phonetic Contrasts in Cantonese Tone Acquisition.

Purpose Previous studies showed both early and late acquisition of Cantonese tones based on transcription data using different criteria, but very little acoustic data were reported. Our study examined Cantonese tone acquisition using both transcription and acoustic data, illustrating the early and protracted aspects of Cantonese tone acquisition. Method One hundred fifty-nine Cantonese-speaking children aged between 2;1 and 6;0 (years;months) and 10 reference speakers participated in a tone production experiment based on picture naming. Natural production materials with 30 monosyllabic words were transcribed by two native judges. Acoustic measurements included overall tonal dispersion and specific contrasts between similar tone pairs: ratios of average fundamental frequency height for the level tones (T1, T3, T6), magnitude of rise and inflection point for the rising tones (T2, T5), magnitude of fall, H1*-H2*, and harmonic-to-noise ratio for the low tones (T4, T6). Auditory assessment of creakiness for T4 was also included. Results Children in the eldest group (aged 5;7-6;0) were still not completely adultlike in production accuracy, although two thirds of them had production accuracy over 90%. Children in all age groups had production accuracy significantly higher than chance level, and they could produce the major acoustic contrasts between specific tone pairs similarly as reference speakers. Fine phonetic detail of the inflection point and creakiness was more challenging for children. Conclusion Our findings illustrated the multifaceted aspects (both early and late) of Cantonese tone acquisition and called for a wider perspective on how to define successful phonological acquisition. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.11594853.

The Effects of Modulating Fundamental Frequency and Speech Rate on the Intelligibility, Communication Efficiency, and Perceived Naturalness of Synthetic Speech.

Purpose This study investigated how modulating fundamental frequency (f0) and speech rate differentially impact the naturalness, intelligibility, and communication efficiency of synthetic speech. Method Sixteen sentences of varying prosodic content were developed via a speech synthesizer. The f0 contour and speech rate of these sentences were altered to produce 4 stimulus sets: (a) normal rate with a fixed f0 level, (b) slow rate with a fixed f0 level, (c) normal rate with prosodically natural f0 variation, and (d) normal rate with prosodically unnatural f0 variation. Sixteen listeners provided orthographic transcriptions and judgments of naturalness for these stimuli. Results Sentences with f0 variation were rated as more natural than those with a fixed f0 level. Conversely, sentences with a fixed f0 level demonstrated higher intelligibility than those with f0 variation. Speech rate did not affect the intelligibility of stimuli with a fixed f0 level. Communication efficiency was highest for sentences produced at a normal rate and a fixed f0 level. Conclusions Sentence-level f0 variation increased naturalness ratings of synthesized speech, whether the variation was prosodically natural or not. However, these f0 variations reduced intelligibility. There is evidence of a trade-off in naturalness and intelligibility of synthesized speech, which may impact future speech synthesis designs. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8847833.

Assessing the Link Between Perception and Production in Cantonese Tone Acquisition

Purpose Previous studies showed early production precedes late perception in Cantonese tone acquisition, contrary to the general principle that perception precedes production in child language. How tone production and perception are linked in 1st language acquisition remains largely unknown. Our study revisited the acquisition of tone in Cantonese-speaking children, exploring the possible link between production and perception in 1st language acquisition. Method One hundred eleven Cantonese-speaking children aged between 2;0 and 6;0 (years;months) and 10 adolescent reference speakers participated in tone production and perception experiments. Production materials with 30 monosyllabic words were transcribed in filtered and unfiltered conditions by 2 native judges. Perception accuracy was based on a 2-alternative forced-choice task with pictures covering all possible tone pair contrasts. Results Children's accuracy of production and perception of all the 6 Cantonese tones was still not adultlike by age 6;0. Both production and perception accuracies matured with age. A weak positive link was found between the 2 accuracies. Mother's native language contributed to children's production accuracy. Conclusions Our findings show that production and perception abilities are associated in tone acquisition. Further study is needed to explore factors affecting production accuracy in children. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7960826.