The Effect of Intertalker Variations on Acoustic--Perceptual Mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin Tone Systems.
Purpose: This study investigates the impact of intertalker variations on the process of mapping acoustic variations on tone categories in two different tone languages. Method: Pitch stimuli manipulated from four voice ranges were presented in isolation through a blocked-talker design. Listeners were...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 579 - 596 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=74184881&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 74184881 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2012 vid: 55 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 74184881 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0025) ppf: 579 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 5MB tig: atl: The Effect of Intertalker Variations on Acoustic--Perceptual Mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin Tone Systems. aug: au: Peng, Gang Zhang, Caicai Zheng, Hong-Ying Minett, James W. Wang, William S.-Y. affil: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China su: Hong Kong (China) China Analysis of variance Dialects Intonation (Phonetics) Phonetics Undergraduates Musical perception Research funding Speech evaluation Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception Statistics Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Analysis of variance Dialects Intonation (Phonetics) Phonetics Undergraduates Hong Kong (China) China Musical perception Research funding Speech evaluation Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception Statistics Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics keyword: Cantonese fundamental frequency Mandarin talker normalization tone perception Cantonese fundamental frequency Mandarin talker normalization tone perception ab: Purpose: This study investigates the impact of intertalker variations on the process of mapping acoustic variations on tone categories in two different tone languages. Method: Pitch stimuli manipulated from four voice ranges were presented in isolation through a blocked-talker design. Listeners were instructed to identify the stimuli that they heard as lexical tones in their native language. Results: Tone identification of Mandarin listeners exhibited relatively stable normalization regardless of the voice, whereas tone identification of Cantonese listeners was unstable and susceptible to the influence of intertalker variations. In the case of Cantonese listeners, intertalker variations had a larger effect on the perception of F[sub 0] height dimension than of F[sub 0] slope dimension. Conclusion: The comparison between Cantonese and Mandarin listeners' performances reveals an interaction of intertalker variations and the types of tone contrasts in each language. For Cantonese tones, which depend heavily on F[sub 0] height distinctions, intertalker variations result in F[sub 0] overlapping and, consequently, ambiguities among them in isolated tone perception. For Mandarin tones, which are distinctive in terms of their F[sub 0] contours, the differences in F[sub 0] contours alone seem sufficient to elicit reliable tone identification. Intertalker variations therefore have relatively limited effect on Mandarin tone perception. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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