Lexical tone perception in native speakers of Cantonese
| Autor: | Kathy Y. S. Lee, C. A. Van Hasselt, Joffee H. S. Lam, Kit T. Y. Chan, Michael C. F. Tong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Signal Detection Psychological genetic structures Voice Quality media_common.quotation_subject Audiology Stimulus (physiology) Language and Linguistics Speech Acoustics Speech and Hearing Phonetics Perception medicine Humans Child Pitch Perception media_common Communication Research and Theory business.industry Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged LPN and LVN Otorhinolaryngology Acoustic Stimulation Child Preschool Speech Perception Female Gradual increase business Psychology Audiometry Speech Psychoacoustics |
| Zdroj: | International journal of speech-language pathology. 17(1) |
| ISSN: | 1754-9515 |
| Popis: | This study aimed at investigating (1) tone perception development among typically-developing Cantonese speakers and (2) the hierarchy of tone perception difficulty among the 15 tone contrasts.Two-hundred typically-developing children aged 3-10 and a group of 25 normal hearing adults were recruited. They were tested on a pool of 75-item calibrated recorded speech signals. Participants responded to each stimulus by pointing at the corresponding picture displayed on a computer screen from a choice of four.There was a gradual increase in tone perception accuracy from children aged 3-6. After age 6, tone perception accuracy was similar to adults with an average error rate of 3-8%. The two tone contrasts that listeners consistently found difficult to distinguish were T2T5 (high-rising vs low-rising) and T3T6 (mid-level vs low-level). In addition, all children groups also showed difficulty in T4T6 identification (low-falling vs low-level).Tone perception is not error-free even among native Cantonese-speaking adults. Overall tone identification performance improved steadily from age 3 to age 6. Based on the participants' performance, a three-tier set of tone groups, with an increasing level of difficulty for identification, is proposed for rehabilitation purposes. These tone groups are (1) Easy: T1T2, T1T3, T1T4, T1T5, T1T6, and T2T3, (2) Medium: T2T4, T2T6, T3T4, and T4T5, and (3) Hard: T2T5, T3T5, T3T6, T4T6, and T5T6. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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