Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers

Pfordresher, Peter Q.; Brown, Steven

doi:10.3758/app.71.6.1385

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“…Our findings of improved accuracy in musical pitch processing among tone language listeners are consistent with previous studies (Alexander et al, 2008;Bidelman et al, 2013;Pfordresher & Brown, 2009;Stevens et al, 2004;Wong et al, 2012). The enhanced music perception is likely to be the result of growing up with a native tone language.…”

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“…In other words, the more difficult the musical pitch processing is, the more evident the advantage of tone language listeners possibly is. Our findings argue for a benefit of musical pitch processing as the result of growing up with a tonal native language, which is consistent with previous findings (Alexander et al, 2008;Bidelman et al, 2013;Pfordresher & Brown, 2009;Stevens et al, 2004;Wong et al, 2012;). Sensitivity to the pitch differences exhibited in the lexical tones is a prerequisite for acquiring them.…”

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“…With regard to the enhancement in lexical tone perception brought about by music aptitude, it has been found that, compared to non-tone language speakers without music training, non-tone language musicians are better at detecting lexical tonal variations (Alexander, Wong, & Bradlow, 2005;Delogu, Lampis, & Belardinelli, 2006;Marie, Delogu, Lampis, Belardinelli, & Besson, 2011), and learning to pair pitch patterns to word meaning (which is similar to learning lexical tones) (Wong & Perrachione, 2007). Speaking a tone language has also been found to be beneficial for music perception (Alexander, Bradlow, Ashley, & Wong, 2008;Bidelman, Hutka, & Moreno, 2013;Jiang, Hamm, Lim, Kirk, & Yang, 2010;Pfordresher & Brown, 2009;Stevens, Keller, & Tyler, 2004;Tillmann et al, 2011;Wong et al, 2012). In sum, earlier studies on pitch processing in language and music show mixed results, suggesting autonomy as well as interdependencies between the two domains.…”

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Chen

Liu

Kager

2016

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The current study explores how language experience may shape the correlation between lexical tone and musical pitch perception. A two domains (music and lexical tone) by two languages (tone, Mandarin Chinese and non-tone, Dutch) design is adopted. Participants were tested on their discrimination of Mandarin Chinese lexical tones, Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), and Musical Ear Test (MET). The Chinese listeners outperformed the Dutch listeners on both MBEA and MET, but had comparable accuracies for the lexical tone discrimination. Importantly, a significant cross-domain correlation was only observed for the Dutch listeners but not for the Chinese listeners. For tone language listeners, once lexical tones have been acquired, native listeners perceive them as phonological categories, and split them from other pitch variations that do not play a phonemic role. Non-tone language listeners, on the other hand, perceive both lexical tones and musical pitch on a psycho-acoustical basis, hence exhibit a unified perception of pitch across the two domains.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

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Liu

Kager

2016

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“…Nesse caso, essas diferenças dão--se de formas positivas ou negativas para qual deles? É na tentativa de auxiliar na resposta para essas questões que o presente estudo está inserido, pois apesar de certos estudos utilizarem como participantes mulheres e homens, poucos têm se dedicado à comparação entre eles (Brancucci et al, 2009;Moore & Vinay, 2009;Pfordresher & Brown, 2009).…”

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Mulheres e homens: diferentes também na percepção das notas musicais?

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Gadelha

et al. 2014

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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RESUMO -O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a percepção das notas musicais RÉ, FÁ, e LÁ em adultos jovens. Participaram do estudo 20 homens e 20 mulheres de 18 a 29 anos, saudáveis, não músicos e não usuários de fármacos ou outras substâncias tóxicas. Realizou-se um teste de discriminação de notas musicais com escolha forçada entre duas alternativas, por meio do qual os participantes escolheram um estímulo previamente apresentado. Comparou-se a frequência de acertos na discriminação das notas musicais em relação ao sexo dos participantes. Encontraram-se diferenças estatisticamente significantes na nota musical Fá, sendo que os homens apresentaram maior quantidade de acertos que as mulheres. Esses resultados encontrados sugerem diferença na percepção das notas musicais para mulheres e homens. ABSTRACT -The objective of this study was to evaluate the perception of musical notes D, F, and A in young adults. The study included 20 men and 20 women, aged 18 to 29 years, healthy, non-musicians, and non-users of drugs or other toxic substances. Participants did a two-alternative forced choice discrimination test of musical notes, in which they were asked to select the stimulus that was previously presented. The frequency of correct discrimination of the musical notes was compared between both sexes. Statistically significant differences in the musical note F were found. Men had a higher number of hits than women. These results suggest differences in the perception of musical notes by women and men. O conhecimento a respeito do processamento musical pode ser um importante referente na discussão de questões sociais, clínicas e neurobiológicas relacionadas aos aspectos auditivos (McDermott & Oxenham, 2008;Omar, Hailstone, Warren, Crutch, & Warren, 2010). Estudos nessa direção analisaram a habilidade de discriminação de sons, utilizando variáveis diversificadas em animais e em humanos. Palavras KeywordsSloan, Dodd e Rennaker (2009), por exemplo, compararam a discriminação de frequências sonoras por ratos albinos em duas tarefas distintas. A primeira requisitava a detecção de uma mudança de frequência, a partir de um tom de referência permanente. A segunda requeria a detecção de uma mudança de frequência entre as reproduções de uma sequência de referência de tons repetidos. Para cada tarefa, o limiar diferencial de frequência foi medido em uma faixa de referência de 2,31 a 27,7 kHz a 60 dB em nível de pressão sonora, com deslocamentos de frequência para cima e para baixo. Todos os 24 sujeitos utilizados aprenderam rapidamente a primeira tarefa, mas apenas 13 aprenderam também a segunda. O desempenho dos sujeitos em cada uma delas melhorou, em média, com o aumento da frequência de referência e, em ambas as tarefas, os limiares de mudança ascendente da frequência foram significativamente maiores do que os limiares de mudanças descendentes.Já Walker, Schunupp, Hart-Schunupp, King e Bizley (2009) treinaram quatro furões (Mustela putorius) no método de escolha forçada entre duas alternativas, em uma tarefa de discriminação de son...

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“…Nevertheless, individual listeners markedly differ in the ability to perceive variations in pitch and to encode this variability in memory (e.g., Pfordresher and Brown, 2009;Gaab and Schlaug, 2003). Recent studies focusing on group characteristics have found that both musical and linguistic experience with pitch use can enhance pitch perception.…”

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The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

Xie

Myers

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Listeners can use pitch changes in speech to identify talkers. Individuals exhibit large variability in sensitivity to pitch and in accuracy perceiving talker identity. In particular, people who have musical training or long-term tone language use are found to have enhanced pitch perception. In the present study, the influence of pitch experience on talker identification was investigated as listeners identified talkers in native language as well as non-native languages. Experiment 1 was designed to explore the influence of pitch experience on talker identification in two groups of individuals with potential advantages for pitch processing: musicians and tone language speakers. Experiment 2 further investigated individual differences in pitch processing and the contribution to talker identification by testing a mediation model. Cumulatively, the results suggested that (a) musical training confers an advantage for talker identification, supporting a shared resources hypothesis regarding music and language and (b) linguistic use of lexical tones also increases accuracy in hearing talker identity. Importantly, these two types of hearing experience enhance talker identification by sharpening pitch perception skills in a domain-general manner.

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Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers

Cited by 140 publications

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Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Cross-domain correlation in pitch perception, the influence of native language

Mulheres e homens: diferentes também na percepção das notas musicais?

The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

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