Effects of Phonetic Similarity in the Identification of Mandarin Tones
Autor: | Mingzhen Bao, Jing Shao, Bin Li |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
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Male Auditory perception China Linguistics and Language Speech perception Speech recognition First language Multilingualism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics Young Adult 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Phonetics Humans Pitch Perception General Psychology 060201 languages & linguistics Intonation (linguistics) Tone (linguistics) Phonology 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language 0602 languages and literature Speech Perception language Female 0305 other medical science Psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 46:107-124 |
ISSN: | 1573-6555 0090-6905 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10936-016-9422-6 |
Popis: | Tonal languages differ in how they use phonetic correlates e.g. average pitch height and pitch direction, for tonal contrasts. Thus, native speakers of a tonal language may need to adjust their attention to familiar or unfamiliar phonetic cues when perceiving non-native tones. On the other hand, speakers of a non-tonal language may need to develop sensitivity to tonal correlates absent from their native system. The current study examines and compares five language groups' perception of two synthesized Mandarin tones: the high level tone and the high falling tone. It aims to examine how listeners from tonal and non-tonal backgrounds identify and categorize acoustically equidistant pitches varying along two phonetic dimensions: pitch onset and slope. Results reveal "universal" perceptual patterns across groups and also tendencies caused by native tonal systems. Our findings confirm that L1 tonal and prosodic systems affect speakers' sensitivity to novel perceptual cues and their abilities to discern relevant phonetic differences. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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