Perceptual correlates of Cantonese tones

Khouw, Edward; Ciocca, Valter

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.10.003

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“…Pitch is the primary cue in the perception of Mandarin tones (Howie, 1976;Lin & Wang, 1984) and Cantonese tones (Fok, 1974;Khouw & Ciocca, 2007).…”

Section: Perceptual Cues Of Tonesmentioning

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“…In addition, it is worth noting that the acoustic distribution is crowded at the pitch onset and most of the tones (e.g T2, T4, T5, T6) differ only at the offset. Studies have shown that pitch offset may be an essential cue for native speakers to categorize the tones (Khouw & Ciocca, 2007). Due to the acoustic similarities between some Cantonese tones, several pairs are harder to discriminate than others.…”

Section: Lexical Tones In Cantonesementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to the acoustic similarities between some Cantonese tones, several pairs are harder to discriminate than others. For instance, the pairs of the two rising tones (T2-T5) and the two level tones (T3-T6) were found to be difficult for native speakers to distinguish in perception and for children to learn in their phonological acquisition (Ciocca & Lui, 2003;Khouw & Ciocca, 2007;Mok, Zuo &Wong, 2013). Similarly, the psychoacoustic similarities of T2-T5 and T3-T6 should contribute to the confusion for non-native listeners too.…”

Section: Lexical Tones In Cantonesementioning

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Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Qin¹,

Mok²

2014

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics

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“…Pitch is the primary cue in the perception of Mandarin tones (Howie, 1976;Lin & Wang, 1984) and Cantonese tones (Fok, 1974;Khouw & Ciocca, 2007).…”

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Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Qin¹,

Mok²

2014

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics

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“…To address the above issues, Ou and Law (2016) subsequently conducted a more detailed examination of the differences in perception and production of T2/T5 between the [+Per+Pro] and [+Per-Pro] groups from Ou et al (2015), using ERPs obtained in a passive oddball paradigm for perception and acoustic measurements for production. The ERP measures included (1) an early component reflecting sensitivity to the rise time of sound amplitude envelope (Carpenter & Shahin, 2013;Thomson, Goswami, & Baldeweg, 2009), which has been reported to contribute to tone recognition (Fu & Zeng, 2000;Whalen & Xu, 1992;Zhou, 2012); (2) the mismatch negativity (MMN, see Näätänen, Paavilainen, Rinne, & Alho, 2007 for a review) indicating auditory discrimination sensitivity to the primary acoustic dimension of tone contrasts, i.e., pitch contour/height (Gandour, 1983;Khouw & Ciocca, 2007); and (3) P3a indexing involuntary attentional switching (Polich, 2003). For production, the differentiations between T2 and T5 in terms of pitch offset and amplitude rise time were measured acoustically.…”

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Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

Law

2017

Atten Percept Psychophys

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This study investigated whether individual differences in cognitive functions, attentional abilities in particular, were associated with individual differences in the quality of phonological representations, resulting in variability in speech perception and production. To do so, we took advantage of a tone merging phenomenon in Cantonese, and identified three groups of typically developed speakers who could differentiate the two rising tones (high and low rising) in both perception and production [+Per+Pro], only in perception [+Per-Pro], or in neither modalities [-Per-Pro]. Perception and production were reflected, respectively, by discrimination sensitivity d′ and acoustic measures of pitch offset and rise time differences. Components of event-related potential (ERP)-the mismatch negativity (MMN) and the ERPs to amplitude rise time-were taken to reflect the representations of the acoustic cues of tones. Components of attention and working memory in the auditory and visual modalities were assessed with published test batteries. The results show that individual differences in both perception and production are linked to how listeners encode and represent the acoustic cues (pitch contour and rise time) as reflected by ERPs. The present study has advanced our knowledge from previous work by integrating measures of perception, production, attention, and those reflecting quality of representation, to offer a comprehensive account for the underlying cognitive factors of individual differences in speech processing. Particularly, it is proposed that domain-general attentional switching affects the quality of perceptual representations of the acoustic cues, giving rise to individual differences in perception and production.

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“…In non-tonal languages, tone-related perception research focuses on the development of intonation model [5] [6]. In tonal languages, acoustic features for tone identification have been mostly investigated [7] [8]. These features are language-dependent.…”

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A Perceptual Study of Approximated Cantonese Tone Contours

Lee

2008

2008 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing

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This paper describes a perceptual study on approximated Cantonese tone contours. It is found that Cantonese tone contours and tone transitions can be approximated by a limited number of linear movements, without creating any noticeable perceptual difference. The slopes of these linear movements are analyzed. They are found to be related with two thresholds of pitch movement perception. The results of perceptual tests with polysyllabic words over large segmental variation confirm the feasibility of approximating F0 contours of Cantonese speech.

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Perceptual correlates of Cantonese tones

Cited by 96 publications

References 17 publications

Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages

Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

A Perceptual Study of Approximated Cantonese Tone Contours

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