The Effect of Musical Experience and Congenital Amusia on Lexical Tone Perception, Production, and Learning: A Review

Ong, Jia Hoong; Tan, Shen Hui; Chan, Alice H. D.; Wong, Francis C. K.

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-7606-5_8

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“…This hypothesis is somewhat supported by the studies which reported that music experience affects lexical tone perception (for a review, please see Ong et al, 2020). While detecting the subtle sentence-final pitch variation, French musicians performed better than non-musicians no matter in their native language (Schön et al, 2004) or the non-native language (Marques et al, 2007).…”

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Music Does Not Facilitate Lexical Tone Normalization: A Speech-Specific Perceptual Process

2021

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Listeners utilize the immediate contexts to efficiently normalize variable vocal streams into standard phonology units. However, researchers debated whether non-speech contexts can also serve as valid clues for speech normalization. Supporters of the two sides proposed a general-auditory hypothesis and a speech-specific hypothesis to explain the underlying mechanisms. A possible confounding factor of this inconsistency is the listeners’ perceptual familiarity of the contexts, as the non-speech contexts were perceptually unfamiliar to listeners. In this study, we examined this confounding factor by recruiting a group of native Cantonese speakers with sufficient musical training experience and a control group with minimal musical training. Participants performed lexical tone judgment tasks in three contextual conditions, i.e., speech, non-speech, and music context conditions. Both groups were familiar with the speech context and not familiar with the non-speech context. The musician group was more familiar with the music context than the non-musician group. The results evidenced the lexical tone normalization process in speech context but not non-speech nor music contexts. More importantly, musicians did not outperform non-musicians on any contextual conditions even if the musicians were experienced at pitch perception, indicating that there is no noticeable transfer in pitch perception from the music domain to the linguistic domain for tonal language speakers. The findings showed that even high familiarity with a non-linguistic context cannot elicit an effective lexical tone normalization process, supporting the speech-specific basis of the perceptual normalization process.

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Music Does Not Facilitate Lexical Tone Normalization: A Speech-Specific Perceptual Process

2021

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“…For example, Hutchins et al (2010) found that amusics had problems while perceiving fine variations of pitch for intonations. Liu et al (2016) reported that amusics showed poorer performance than typical listeners in lexical tone perception (see also Chen and Peng, 2020;Liu et al, 2021;Ong et al, 2020). The abovementioned studies indicate that amusia appears to be a domain-general pitch processing disorder (Vuvan et al, 2015).…”

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Distributional learning of musical pitch despite tone deafness in individuals with congenital amusia

Zhu

Chen

et al. 2023

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Congenital amusia is an innate and lifelong deficit of music processing. This study investigated whether adult listeners with amusia were still able to learn pitch-related musical chords based on stimulus frequency of statistical distribution, i.e., via distributional learning. Following a pretest-training-posttest design, 18 amusics and 19 typical, musically intact listeners were assigned to bimodal and unimodal conditions that differed in distribution of the stimuli. Participants' task was to discriminate chord minimal pairs, which were transposed to a novel microtonal scale. Accuracy rates for each test session were collected and compared between the two groups using generalized mixed-effects models. Results showed that amusics were less accurate than typical listeners at all comparisons, thus corroborating previous findings. Importantly, amusics—like typical listeners—demonstrated perceptual gains from pretest to posttest in the bimodal condition (but not the unimodal condition). The findings reveal that amusics' distributional learning of music remains largely preserved despite their deficient music processing. Implications of the results for statistical learning and intervention programs to mitigate amusia are discussed.

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Does Musical Training Influence Perceptual Learning of Japanese Pitch Accent? The Case of Native Italian Speakers

Naito

2023

Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition

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The Effect of Musical Experience and Congenital Amusia on Lexical Tone Perception, Production, and Learning: A Review

Cited by 3 publications

References 92 publications

Music Does Not Facilitate Lexical Tone Normalization: A Speech-Specific Perceptual Process

Music Does Not Facilitate Lexical Tone Normalization: A Speech-Specific Perceptual Process

Distributional learning of musical pitch despite tone deafness in individuals with congenital amusia

Does Musical Training Influence Perceptual Learning of Japanese Pitch Accent? The Case of Native Italian Speakers

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