From long to short and from short to long: Perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length

Lehnert-LeHouillier, Heike

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“…The number of st measures the distance from F 01 (Hz) to F 02 (Hz) [63]. We set F 02 to be 130Hz, the same value chosen for the offset F0 value as in [36].…”

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“…More importantly, he highlights an interaction between the influence of vowel height and tone on perceived duration: across tone height (high vs. low) and across dynamic tones (rising vs. falling), their effects are reduced in shorter syllables, whereas across vowel height ([a] vs. [i]) and across tonal contour (contour vs. level), their effects are lessened in longer syllables [62]. Moreover, Lehnert-Lehouillier points out that the reported impact of F0 patterns on length perception may be dependent on language background [63]. …”

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Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions

2017

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We investigated categorical perception of rising and falling pitch contours by tonal and non-tonal listeners. Specifically, we determined minimum durations needed to perceive both contours and compared to those of production, how stimuli duration affects their perception, whether there is an intrinsic F0 effect, and how first language background, duration, directions of pitch and vowel quality interact with each other. Continua of fundamental frequency on different vowels with 9 duration values were created for identification and discrimination tasks. Less time is generally needed to effectively perceive a pitch direction than to produce it. Overall, tonal listeners’ perception is more categorical than non-tonal listeners. Stimuli duration plays a critical role for both groups, but tonal listeners showed a stronger duration effect, and may benefit more from the extra time in longer stimuli for context-coding, consistent with the multistore model of categorical perception. Within a certain range of semitones, tonal listeners also required shorter stimulus duration to perceive pitch direction changes than non-tonal listeners. Finally, vowel quality plays a limited role and only interacts with duration in perceiving falling pitch directions. These findings further our understanding on models of categorical perception, the relationship between speech perception and production, and the interaction between the perception of tones and vowel quality.

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“…The number of st measures the distance from F 01 (Hz) to F 02 (Hz) [63]. We set F 02 to be 130Hz, the same value chosen for the offset F0 value as in [36].…”

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions

2017

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“…where F 01 and F 02 represent the lower F 0 and the higher F 0 , and the number of st measures the distance between F 01 and F 02 in Hz (Lehnert-LeHouillier, 2013 ). Following Xu et al ( 2006 ), we set the F 02 -value at 130 Hz, and calculated the F 01 -value based on the chosen F 02 -value and the intercept value of −2.2st.…”

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Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians and Non-musicians

2021

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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 fundamental frequency generated based on Mandarin level, rising and falling tones on two vowels with nine duration values.Results: Cantonese-speaking musicians exhibited a stronger categorical perception (CP) of pitch contours than non-musicians based on the identification and discrimination tasks. Compared to non-musicians, musicians were also more sensitive to the change of stimulus duration and to the intrinsic F0 in pitch perception in pitch processing.Conclusion: The CP was strengthened due to musical experience and musicians benefited more from increased stimulus duration and were more efficient in pitch processing. Musicians might be able to better use the extra time to form an auditory representation with more acoustic details. Even with more efficiency in pitch processing, musicians' ability to detect subtle pitch changes caused by intrinsic F0 was not undermined, which is likely due to their superior ability to process temporal information. These results thus suggest musicians may have a great advantage in learning tones of a second language.

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Perception and Asymmetry in the High German Consonant Shift

Peters

2024

J Ger Ling

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This article addresses the shift asymmetries of the High German Consonant Shift. In one part of this sound change, Pre-Old High German ⁺/p/, ⁺/t/, and ⁺/k/ shifted to the Old High German affricates [pf], [ts], and [kx], respectively. However, the voiceless stops did not shift in every dialect of Old High German. The uneven distribution of the shift is referred to in the literature as shift asymmetry. Much work by Iverson, Davis, and Salmons has attributed the asymmetry to markedness. While maintaining their overall analysis of the shift, this article shows that markedness can be dispensed with in accounting for the shift asymmetries. In accordance with Evolutionary Phonology, perceptual and phonetic data are presented which account for the asymmetries without making any reference to markedness. Since it rejects markedness in diachronic sound change, the present analysis also has broader implications for markedness diachronically and synchronically.

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From long to short and from short to long: Perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length

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Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions

Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions

Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians and Non-musicians

Perception and Asymmetry in the High German Consonant Shift

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