On the early neural perceptual integrality of tones and vowels

Choi, William; Tong, Xiuli; Gu, Feng; Tong, Xiuhong; Wong, Lena L. N.

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.003

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“…Each of these abilities involved extracting suprasegmental variation from full-spectral input and applying this variation to a new word. This account is in line with previous neurophysiological ( Choi et al, 2017 ) and behavioral studies of tone perception ( Repp and Lin, 1990 ; Lee and Nusbaum, 1993 ; Tong et al, 2008 , 2014 ) which demonstrated that segmental and suprasegmental information were processed integrally rather than independently, suggesting that speech arrives at our senses as an integrated signal that has to be segregated in response to task demands. The ability to segregate the signal in this way and to extract and re-apply suprasegmental phonological information from full-spectral speech may underlie the direct contribution of Cantonese lexical tones sensitivity to English lexical stress sensitivity.…”

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“…Given the prominent role of pitch in tone perception (e.g., Gandour, 1981 , 1983 ; Khouw and Ciocca, 2007 ; Tong et al, 2014 ) and in stress perception ( Yu and Andruski, 2010 ), it stands to reason that listeners’ sensitivity to lexical tones and lexical stress may depend on their sensitivity to acoustic pitch. In particular, general auditory sensitivity might be a common construct engaged in the perception of lexical tones and lexical stress at lower auditory levels of speech perception articulated in theoretical models of speech perception (e.g., see McMurray et al, 2011 for C-CuRE Model; Tong et al, 2014 for TTRACE Model; Choi et al, 2017 for TTRACE+ Model).…”

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From Lexical Tone to Lexical Stress: A Cross-Language Mediation Model for Cantonese Children Learning English as a Second Language

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This study investigated how Cantonese lexical tone sensitivity contributed to English lexical stress sensitivity among Cantonese children who learned English as a second language (ESL). Five-hundred-and-sixteen second-to-third grade Cantonese ESL children were tested on their Cantonese lexical tone sensitivity, English lexical stress sensitivity, general auditory sensitivity, and working memory. Structural equation modeling revealed that Cantonese lexical tone sensitivity contributed to English lexical stress sensitivity both directly, and indirectly through the mediation of general auditory sensitivity, in which the direct pathway had a larger relative contribution to English lexical stress sensitivity than the indirect pathway. These results suggest that the tone-stress association might be accounted for by joint phonological and acoustic processes that underlie lexical tone and lexical stress perception.

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From Lexical Tone to Lexical Stress: A Cross-Language Mediation Model for Cantonese Children Learning English as a Second Language

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“…An automatic procedure ensured that the participants were using a computer but not phones or tablets. After giving written consent, the participants filled out a language and music background questionnaire (Choi et al, 2017(Choi et al, , 2019Choi, 2021b). Prior to the Musical Ear Test, the participants could test and adjust the sound volume to their satisfaction (Wallentin et al, 2010).…”

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Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Choi

2021

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Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience can facilitate music perception. However, the precise nature of this facilitation is not fully understood. To address this research gap, I investigated the interactive effect of language and musicianship on musical pitch and rhythmic perception. Cantonese and English listeners, each divided into musician and non-musician groups, completed the Musical Ear Test and the Raven’s 2 Progressive Matrices. Essentially, an interactive effect of language and musicianship was found on musical pitch but not rhythmic perception. Consistent with previous studies, Cantonese language experience appeared to facilitate musical pitch perception. However, this facilitatory effect was only present among the non-musicians. Among the musicians, Cantonese language experience did not offer any perceptual advantage. The above findings reflect that musicianship influences the effect of language on musical pitch perception. Together with the previous findings, the new findings offer two theoretical implications for the OPERA hypothesis—bi-directionality and mechanisms through which language experience and musicianship interact in different domains.

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“…However, in the low-rising tone context for which musical advantage was absent, the two groups attended to the same acoustic cues (i.e., F0 contour). As mentioned above, stress is signalled by F0, duration, and intensity (Choi et al, 2017; 2019; Fry, 1958; Wang, 2008; Yu & Andruski, 2010). It is possible that English musicians and non-musicians attend to different acoustic cues for stress discrimination.…”

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Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception

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2021

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Musical experience facilitates speech perception. French musicians, to whom stress is foreign, have been found to perceive English stress more accurately than French non-musicians. This study investigated whether this musical advantage also applies to native listeners. English musicians and non-musicians completed an English stress discrimination task and two control tasks. With age, non-verbal intelligence and short-term memory controlled, the musicians exhibited a perceptual advantage relative to the non-musicians. This perceptual advantage was equally potent to both trochaic and iambic stress patterns. In terms of perceptual strategy, the two groups showed differential use of acoustic cues for iambic but not trochaic stress. Collectively, the results could be taken to suggest that musical experience enhances stress discrimination even among native listeners. Remarkably, this musical advantage is highly consistent and does not particularly favour either stress pattern. For iambic stress, the musical advantage appears to stem from the differential use of acoustic cues by musicians. For trochaic stress, the musical advantage may be rooted in enhanced durational sensitivity.

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On the early neural perceptual integrality of tones and vowels

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

From Lexical Tone to Lexical Stress: A Cross-Language Mediation Model for Cantonese Children Learning English as a Second Language

From Lexical Tone to Lexical Stress: A Cross-Language Mediation Model for Cantonese Children Learning English as a Second Language

Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception

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