2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713949
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Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians and Non-musicians

Abstract: Purpose: This study is to investigate whether Cantonese-speaking musicians may show stronger CP than Cantonese-speaking non-musicians in perceiving pitch directions generated based on Mandarin tones. It also aims to examine whether musicians may be more effective in processing stimuli and more sensitive to subtle differences caused by vowel quality.Methods: Cantonese-speaking musicians and non-musicians performed a categorical identification and a discrimination task on rising and falling continua of fundament… Show more

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“…A body of studies evaluated lexical tone performance in Mandarin-speaking CI users, which consistently demonstrated remarkable deficits in their tonal perception and production (Tan et al 2016; Chen & Wong 2017; Gao et al 2021 for reviews). It is noticeable that recognition of naturally spoken Mandarin tones in quiet can be relatively robust in CI users, with an average accuracy of above 75% (Peng et al 2004; Tao et al 2015; Zhang et al 2020a), possibly due to the available duration and intensity cues that co-vary with F0 contour.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A body of studies evaluated lexical tone performance in Mandarin-speaking CI users, which consistently demonstrated remarkable deficits in their tonal perception and production (Tan et al 2016; Chen & Wong 2017; Gao et al 2021 for reviews). It is noticeable that recognition of naturally spoken Mandarin tones in quiet can be relatively robust in CI users, with an average accuracy of above 75% (Peng et al 2004; Tao et al 2015; Zhang et al 2020a), possibly due to the available duration and intensity cues that co-vary with F0 contour.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The results suggested that the intensive music training could contribute to significant improvements in both the trained MCI task and proximally related tasks including lexical tone identification and sentence recognition (Cheng et al 2018). Given that pitch cues are shared essential attributes by music and speech (especially tonal languages) with documented cross-domain transfer effects (Wu et al 2015; Nan et al 2018; Deroche et al 2019b; Torppa & Huotilainen 2019; Wiener & Bradley 2020; Zhang et al 2020d; Chen et al 2021; Zhu et al 2021), it seems plausible to speculate that gains in music training could transfer to pitch-related performances in speech perception for CI users.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%