Cues for Lexical Tone Perception in Children: Acoustic Correlates and Phonetic Context Effects.
Purpose: The authors investigated the effects of acoustic cues (i.e., pitch height, pitch contour, and pitch onset and offset) and phonetic context cues (i.e., syllable onsets and rimes) on lexical tone perception in Cantonese-speaking children. Method: Eight minimum pairs of tonal contrasts were pr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 1589 - 1606 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=98898679&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 98898679 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: Oct2014 vid: 57 iid: 5 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 98898679 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-S-13-0145 ppf: 1589 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Cues for Lexical Tone Perception in Children: Acoustic Correlates and Phonetic Context Effects. aug: au: Xiuli Tong McBride, Catherine Burnham, Denis affil: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Chinese University of Hong Kong MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia su: Hong Kong (China) Analysis of variance Elementary schools Phonetics Experimental design Research funding Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception in children Prompts (Psychology) Repeated measures design Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Analysis of variance Elementary schools Phonetics Hong Kong (China) Elementary and Secondary Schools Experimental design Research funding Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception in children Prompts (Psychology) Repeated measures design Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: acoustic features Cantonese-speaking children phonetic context tonal constituency tonal integrity tone perception TTRACE acoustic features Cantonese-speaking children phonetic context tonal constituency tonal integrity tone perception TTRACE ab: Purpose: The authors investigated the effects of acoustic cues (i.e., pitch height, pitch contour, and pitch onset and offset) and phonetic context cues (i.e., syllable onsets and rimes) on lexical tone perception in Cantonese-speaking children. Method: Eight minimum pairs of tonal contrasts were presented in either an identical phonetic context or in different phonetic contexts (different syllable onsets and rimes). Children were instructed to engage in tone identification and tone discrimination. Results: Cantonese children attended to pitch onset in perceiving similarly contoured tones and attended to pitch contour in perceiving different-contoured tones. There was a decreasing level of tone discrimination accuracy, with tone perception being easiest for same rime–different syllable onset, more difficult for different rime–same syllable onset, and most difficult for different rime–different syllable onset phonetic contexts. This pattern was observed in tonal contrasts in which the member tones had the same contour but not in ones in which the member tones had different contours. Conclusion: These findings suggest that in addition to pitch contour, the pitch onset is another important acoustic cue for tone perception. The relative importance of acoustic cues for tone perception is phonetically context dependent. These findings are discussed with reference to a newly modified TRACE model for tone languages (TTRACE). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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