Effects of Tone Merging and Musical Training on Cantonese Tone Perception
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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)

莫碧琪教授 (语言学及现代语言系)

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摘要This study investigates whether musical training can facilitate lexical tone perception of native speakers of a tone language. Some Cantonese tone pairs, T2/T5 (rising), T3/T6 (level), T4/T6 (falling vs level) are merging in recent years. The merging subjects have poorer general tone perception than the control subjects. Previous studies showed that musical training facilitates lexical tone perception of non-tone language speakers. However, it is unclear if musical training can also influence tone perception of native speakers of tone-languages who are merging tones. Three groups of listeners (normal Cantonese, merging Cantonese, foreign) with and without advanced musical training participated in AX discrimination tasks of Cantonese tones and pure tones. Both accuracy and reaction time data show that while musical training can enhance lexical tone perception of foreign listeners, it has little influence on merging Cantonese listeners. The results indicate that different perceptual mechanisms may be involved in linguistic and musical tone perception, and that the linguistic use of tones is more fundamental and more robust than musical training.

着者Mok P, Zuo DH
会议名称6th International Conference on Speech Prosody
会议开始日22.http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/05.2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/012
会议完结日25.http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/05.2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/012
会议地点Shanghai
会议国家中国
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/012
月份1
日期1
出版社TONGJI UNIV PRESS
页次462 - 465
电子国际标準书号978-7-56http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/08-4869-3
语言英式英语

关键词Cantonese; music training; tone merging; tone perception
Web of Science 学科类别Acoustics; Computer Science; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Linguistics