| The effect of inter-talker variations on acoustic-perceptual mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin tone systems. | |
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PMID: 22207701 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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PURPOSE: This study investigates the impact of inter-talker variations on the process of mapping acoustic variations onto tone categories in two different tone languages. METHOD: Pitch stimuli manipulated from four voice ranges were presented in isolation via 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 irrespective of the voice, whereas tone identification of Cantonese listeners was unstable and susceptible to the influence of inter-talker variations. In the case of Cantonese, inter-talker variations had a larger effect on the perception of F0 height dimension than of F0 slope dimension. CONCLUSION: The comparison between Cantonese and Mandarin listeners' performances reveals an interaction of inter-talker variations and the types of tone contrasts in each language. For Cantonese tones, which depend heavily on F0 height distinctions, inter-talker variations result in F0 overlapping and, consequently, ambiguities among them in isolated tone perception. For Mandarin tones, which are distinctive in terms of their F0 contours, the differences in F0 contours alone seem sufficient to elicit reliable tone identification. Inter-talker variations therefore have relatively limited effect on Mandarin tone perception. |
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Gang Peng; Caicai Zhang; Hong-Ying Zheng; James W Minett; William S-Y Wang |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-12-29 |
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Title: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR Volume: - ISSN: 1558-9102 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-12-30 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9705610 Medline TA: J Speech Lang Hear Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Language Engineering Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. |
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