TY - GEN
T1 - The perception of speech and non-speech tones by tone and non-tone language listeners
AU - Qin, Zhen
AU - Mok, Peggy
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This study tested how linguistic experience and psychoacoustic factors affect tonal perception of Mandarin, English and French speakers. AX discrimination tasks of speech and non-speech tones were conducted. Results showed that the subjects performed differently in the speech and nonspeech tasks. In the speech task, while the three L1 groups shared some confusable tone pairs due to their acoustical similarity, they differed in specific pairs under the influence of L1 linguistic experience. In the non-speech task, however, the three L1 groups did not have different error patterns of individual pairs. In short, both L1 experience and psychoacoustic similarity of stimuli were found to have an impact on the perception of non-native tones.
AB - This study tested how linguistic experience and psychoacoustic factors affect tonal perception of Mandarin, English and French speakers. AX discrimination tasks of speech and non-speech tones were conducted. Results showed that the subjects performed differently in the speech and nonspeech tasks. In the speech task, while the three L1 groups shared some confusable tone pairs due to their acoustical similarity, they differed in specific pairs under the influence of L1 linguistic experience. In the non-speech task, however, the three L1 groups did not have different error patterns of individual pairs. In short, both L1 experience and psychoacoustic similarity of stimuli were found to have an impact on the perception of non-native tones.
KW - Cross-linguistic study
KW - Linguistic experience
KW - Psychoacoustic similarity
KW - Tone perception
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84902977511
M3 - Conference Paper published in a book
AN - SCOPUS:84902977511
SN - 9787560848693
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012
SP - 366
EP - 369
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012
PB - Tongji University Press
T2 - 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012, SP 2012
Y2 - 22 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -