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Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

 

作者: Corinne B. Moore,   Allard Jongman,  

 

期刊: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  (AIP Available online 1997)
卷期: Volume 102, issue 3  

页码: 1864-1877

 

ISSN:0001-4966

 

年代: 1997

 

DOI:10.1121/1.420092

 

出版商: Acoustical Society of America

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

This study investigated speaker normalization in perception of Mandarin tone 2 (midrising) and tone 3 (low-falling–rising) by examining listeners’ use ofF0range as a cue to speaker identity. Two speakers were selected such that tone 2 of the low-pitched speaker and tone 3 of the high-pitched speaker occurred at equivalentF0heights. Production and perception experiments determined that turning point (or inflection point of the tone), andΔF0(the difference inF0between onset and turning point) distinguished the two tones. Three tone continua varying in either turning point,ΔF0,or both acoustic dimensions, were then appended to a natural precursor phrase from each of the two speakers. Results showed identification shifts such that identical stimuli were identified as low tones for the high precursor condition, but as high tones for the low precursor condition. Stimuli varying in turning point showed no significant shift, suggesting that listeners normalize only when the precursor varies in the same dimension as the stimuli. The magnitude of the shift was greater for stimuli varying only inΔF0,as compared to stimuli varying in both turning point andΔF0,indicating that normalization effects are reduced for stimuli more closely matching natural speech.

 

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