Just noticeable differences for pitch height and pitch contour for Chinese and American listeners

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3225-3225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allard Jongman ◽  
Zhen Qin ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Joan Sereno
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Pitch Height

RECOGNITION OF LEXICAL TONES FOR ISOLATED SYLLABLES AND DISYLLABLES IN MANDARIN SPEECH

1988 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
WU-JI YANG ◽  
JYH-CHYANG LEE ◽  
YUEH-CHIN CHANG ◽  
HSIAO-CHUAN WANG
Keyword(s):  
Vector Quantization ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Pitch Height ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Lexical Tones ◽  
Feature Vectors ◽  
Speaker Independent ◽  
Accuracy Rates

This study purposes a method for recognizing the lexical tones in Mandarin speech. The method is based on Vector Quantization (VQ) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM). The pitch periods are extracted to derive the feature vectors which represent pitch height and pitch contour slope. One HMM is trained by the feature vectors of monosyllables for each tone. Then the HMMs are used to recognize the tone of monosyllables and disyllables. For the monosyllables, the accuracy rate can be 93.75% for speaker-independent cases. For the disyllables, the accuracy rates are 93% for the first syllables and 90% for the second syllables. It shows that the tone of the second syllable may be affected by the preceding syllable. This degradation also reveals the fact of tone variation in Mandarin speech.

ERP correlates of pre-attentive processing of Cantonese lexical tones: The effects of pitch contour and pitch height

2011 ◽  
Vol 487 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiu-Kei Tsang ◽  
Shiwei Jia ◽  
Jian Huang ◽  
Hsuan-Chih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Pitch Height ◽  
Lexical Tones

scholarly journals The tone system of Ruc and tonogenesis in Vietic languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Tấn Thành Tạ
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Mountainous Area ◽  
Pitch Height ◽  
Spectral Measurements ◽  
Tonal Language

Rục, a dialect of the ethnic group of Chứt spoken in the mountainous area in Quảng Bình province, has been describing as a tonal language with four tones characterized by pitch (F0), voice quality and laryngeal features; however, there has been no experimental study on the tone system of Rục. In Summer 2019, we recorded 20 Ruc speakers (10 women) reading a wordlist including 66 words made of five vowels /iː, ɛː, uː, ɔː, aː/ in combination with different dental and velar onsets and the four tones. The results show that the four tones in Rục are differentiated by pitch height and pitch contour. Moreover, spectral measurements (H1-H2, H1-A1, H1-A2 and CPP) indicate that two low-register tones (derived from voiced onsets) have a breathy voice compared to a modal voice in two high-register tones (derived from voiceless onsets). In words with the two low-register tones, vowels tend to be pronounced with a higher aperture (a lower F1) than in high-register tones context. These results support and update theories on tonongenesis and registrogenesis in Vietic languages and Mon-Khmer languages in general.

Weighting Pitch Contour and Loudness Contour in Mandarin Tone Perception in Cochlear Implant Listeners

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinglin Meng ◽  
Nengheng Zheng ◽  
Ambika Prasad Mishra ◽  
Jacinta Dan Luo ◽  
Jan W. H. Schnupp
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Tone Perception ◽  
Mandarin Tone

Listeners and Lookers: Using Pitch Height and Gaze Duration for Inferring Mental States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane T. Zimmermann ◽  
Simon Wehrle ◽  
Francesco Cangemi ◽  
Martine Grice ◽  
Kai Vogeley
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Pitch Height

Aging Effect on Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones 2 and 3 and Thresholds of Pitch Contour Discrimination

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxia Wang ◽  
Xiaohu Yang ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Lilong Xu ◽  
Can Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Categorical Perception ◽  
Aging Effect ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Tone Perception ◽  
F0 Contour ◽  
Identification Function ◽  
Tone Discrimination ◽  
Mandarin Tones ◽  
Mandarin Tone

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine the aging effect on the categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese Tone 2 (rising F0 pitch contour) and Tone 3 (falling-then-rising F0 pitch contour) as well as on the thresholds of pitch contour discrimination. Method Three experiments of Mandarin tone perception were conducted for younger and older listeners with Mandarin Chinese as the native language. The first 2 experiments were in the categorical perception paradigm: tone identification and tone discrimination for a series of stimuli, the F0 contour of which systematically varied from Tone 2 to Tone 3. In the third experiment, the just-noticeable differences of pitch contour discrimination were measured for both groups. Results In the measures of categorical perception, older listeners showed significantly shallower slopes in the tone identification function and significantly smaller peakedness in the tone discrimination function compared with younger listeners. Moreover, the thresholds of pitch contour discrimination were significantly higher for older listeners than for younger listeners. Conclusion These results suggest that aging reduced the categoricality of Mandarin tone perception and worsened the psychoacoustic capacity to discriminate pitch contour changes, thereby possibly leading to older listeners' difficulty in identifying Tones 2 and 3.

scholarly journals On Older Listeners' Ability to Perceive Dynamic Pitch

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Shen ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Pamela E. Souza
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Interindividual Variability ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Natural Speech ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Pitch Contours ◽  
Pitch Patterns ◽  
Better Than

PurposeNatural speech comes with variation in pitch, which serves as an important cue for speech recognition. The present study investigated older listeners' dynamic pitch perception with a focus on interindividual variability. In particular, we asked whether some of the older listeners' inability to perceive dynamic pitch stems from the higher susceptibility to the interference from formant changes.MethodA total of 22 older listeners and 21 younger controls with at least near-typical hearing were tested on dynamic pitch identification and discrimination tasks using synthetic monophthong and diphthong vowels.ResultsThe older listeners' ability to detect changes in pitch varied substantially, even when musical and linguistic experiences were controlled. The influence of formant patterns on dynamic pitch perception was evident in both groups of listeners. Overall, strong pitch contours (i.e., more dynamic) were perceived better than weak pitch contours (i.e., more monotonic), particularly with rising pitch patterns.ConclusionsThe findings are in accordance with the literature demonstrating some older individuals' difficulty perceiving dynamic pitch cues in speech. Moreover, they suggest that this problem may be prominent when the dynamic pitch is carried by natural speech and when the pitch contour is not strong.

scholarly journals Pitch Contour Stylization by Marking Voice Intonation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakshi Pandey ◽  
Amit Banerjee ◽  
Subramaniam Khedika
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Contour
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