The role of creaky voice in Mandarin tone 2 and tone 3 perception

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Cao ◽  
Ratree Wayland ◽  
Edith Kaan
Keyword(s):  
Creaky Voice ◽  
Mandarin Tone

The role of creaky voice quality in Cantonese tonal perception.

2010 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 2023-2023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiu‐Wai Lam ◽  
Kristine M. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Voice Quality ◽  
Tonal Perception ◽  
Creaky Voice

scholarly journals The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric processing of lexical tone

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUE WANG ◽  
DAWN M. BEHNE ◽  
ALLARD JONGMAN ◽  
JOAN A. SERENO
Keyword(s):  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Hemispheric Lateralization ◽  
Lexical Tone ◽  
Hemispheric Processing ◽  
Linguistic Experience ◽  
Hemisphere Dominance ◽  
Ear Advantage ◽  
Nonnative Listeners ◽  
Mandarin Tone

This study investigated hemispheric lateralization of Mandarin tone. Four groups of listeners were examined: native Mandarin listeners, English–Mandarin bilinguals, Norwegian listeners with experience with Norwegian tone, and American listeners with no tone experience. Tone pairs were dichotically presented and listeners identified which tone they heard in each ear. For the Mandarin listeners, 57% of the total errors occurred in the left ear, indicating a right-ear (left-hemisphere) advantage. The English–Mandarin bilinguals exhibited nativelike patterns, with 56% left-ear errors. However, no ear advantage was found for the Norwegian or American listeners (48 and 47% left-ear errors, respectively). Results indicate left-hemisphere dominance of Mandarin tone by native and proficient bilingual listeners, whereas nonnative listeners show no evidence of lateralization, regardless of their familiarity with lexical tone.

The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric perception of Mandarin tone.

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2766-2766
Author(s):  
Shuang Lu ◽  
Vincent J. van Heuven ◽  
Ratree Wayland
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Experience ◽  
Mandarin Tone

The role of creaky voice in Cantonese tonal perception

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 1320-1333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine M. Yu ◽  
Hiu Wai Lam
Keyword(s):  
Tonal Perception ◽  
Creaky Voice

Testing the role of phonetic knowledge in Mandarin tone sandhi

Phonology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Yuwen Lai
Keyword(s):  
Tone Sandhi ◽  
Lexical Frequency ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Mandarin Speakers ◽  
Mandarin Tone ◽  
Novel Words

AbstractPhonological patterns often have phonetic bases. But whether phonetic substance should be encoded in synchronic phonological grammar is controversial. We aim to test the synchronic relevance of phonetics by investigating native Mandarin speakers' applications of two exceptionless tone sandhi processes to novel words: the contour reduction 213→21/—T (T≠213), which has a clear phonetic motivation, and the perceptually neutralising 213→35/—213, whose phonetic motivation is less clear. In two experiments, Mandarin subjects were asked to produce two individual monosyllables together as two different types of novel disyllabic words. Results show that speakers apply the 213→21 sandhi with greater accuracy than the 213→35 sandhi in novel words, indicating a synchronic bias against the phonetically less motivated pattern. We also show that lexical frequency is relevant to the application of the sandhis to novel words, but cannot account alone for the low sandhi accuracy of 213→35.

scholarly journals Chinese Tone Recognition Based on 3D Dynamic Muscle Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
JianRong Wang ◽  
Li Wan ◽  
Ju Zhang ◽  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Pitch Change ◽  
Texture Information ◽  
Reading Technique ◽  
Lip Reading ◽  
Tone Recognition ◽  
Mandarin Tone

To advance the study of lip-reading recognition in accordance with Chinese pronunciation norms, we carefully investigated Mandarin tone recognition based on visual information, in contrast to that of the previous character-based Chinese lip reading technique. In this paper, we mainly studied the vowel tonal transformation in Chinese pronunciation and designed a lightweight skipping convolution network framework (SCNet). And, the experimental results showed that the SCNet was sensitive to the more detailed description of the pitch change than that of the traditional model and achieved a better tone recognition effect and outstanding antiinterference performance. In addition, we conducted a more detailed study on the assistance of the deep texture information in lip-reading recognition. We found that the deep texture information has a significant effect on tone recognition, and the possibility of multimodal lip reading in Chinese tone recognition was confirmed. Similarly, we verified the role of the SCNet syllable tone recognition and found that the vowel and syllable tone recognition accuracy of our model was as high as 97.3%, which also showed the robustness of our proposed method for Chinese tone recognition and it can be widely used for tone recognition.

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