Effects of language proficiency in categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 2839-2839
Author(s):  
Bing Cheng ◽  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Yang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Categorical Perception ◽  
Mandarin Chinese Tones

Categorical Perception of Mandarin Chinese Tones 1–2 and Tones 1–4: Effects of Aging and Signal Duration

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 3667-3677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxia Wang ◽  
Xiaohu Yang ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Categorical Perception ◽  
Aging Effect ◽  
Signal Duration ◽  
F0 Contour ◽  
Identification Function ◽  
Effects Of Aging ◽  
Tone Discrimination ◽  
Mandarin Tone ◽  
Mandarin Chinese Tones

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the aging effect on the categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese tones with varied fundamental frequency (F0) contours and signal duration. Method Both younger and older native Chinese listeners with normal hearing were recruited in 2 experiments: tone identification and tone discrimination on a series of stimuli with the F0 contour systematically varying from the flat tone to the rising–falling tones. Apart from F0 contour, tone duration was manipulated at 3 levels: 100, 200, and 400 ms. Results Results suggested that, compared with younger listeners, older listeners performed with shallower slope in the identification function and smaller peakedness in the discrimination function, particularly for Tones 1 and 2, whereas for Tones 1 and 4, comparable categorical perception was found between younger and older listeners. Conclusions The current study suggested that longer duration facilitated categorical perception in the flat–rising tones for the older listeners. Such an aging effect was not found with the flat–falling tones, suggesting that the aging-related deficit in categorical perception might relate to different tone types. Aging resulted in less categoricality of Mandarin tone perception for the flat–rising tones with short duration like 100 ms, possibly due to the aging-related decline in temporal processing.

Developmental changes in categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 2925-2925
Author(s):  
Dandan Qin ◽  
Bing Cheng ◽  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Yang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Categorical Perception ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Mandarin Chinese Tones

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.

The impact of spectral resolution on the mismatch response to Mandarin Chinese tones: An ERP study of cochlear implant simulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 125 (8) ◽  
pp. 1568-1575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-ching Kuo ◽  
Chia-Ying Lee ◽  
Man-Chun Chen ◽  
Tzu-Ling Liu ◽  
Shih-kuen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mandarin Chinese Tones
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