Context Effect in the Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones
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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)

彭刚教授 (语言学及现代语言系)

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数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-015-1008-2

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摘要The categorical perception of tones is based not only on word-internal F0 cues but also on external F0 cues in the contexts. The present study focuses on the effects of different types of preceding contexts on Mandarin tone perception. In the experiment, subjects were required to identify a target tone with the preceding context. The target tone was from a tone continuum ranging from Mandarin Tone http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1 (high-level tone) to Tone 2 (mid-rising tone). It was preceded by four types of contexts (normal speech, reversal speech, fine-structure sound, and non-speech) with different mean F0 values. Results indicate that the categorical perception of Mandarin tones is influenced only by the normal speech context, and the effect is contrastive. For instance, in a normal speech context with a higher mean F0, the following tone is more likely to be perceived as a lower frequency tone (Tone 2), whereas with a lower mean F0, the following tone is more likely to be perceived as a higher frequency tone (Tone http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1). These findings suggest that Mandarin tone normalization is mediated by speech-specific processes and that the speech context needs to be intelligible.

着者Chen F, Peng G
期刊名称JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
出版年份20http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/16
月份2
日期http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1
卷号82
期次2
出版社SPRINGER
页次253 - 26http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1
国际标準期刊号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1939-80http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/18
电子国际标準期刊号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1939-8http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/15
语言英式英语

关键词Categorical perception; Context effect; Mandarin tone; Speech-specific mechanisms
Web of Science 学科类别Computer Science; Computer Science, Information Systems; Engineering; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic