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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38470842/mandarin-speaking-amusics-online-recognition-of-tone-and-intonation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lirong Tang, Yangxiaoxue Xu, Shiting Yang, Xiangyun Meng, Boqi Du, Chen Sun, Li Liu, Qi Dong, Yun Nan
PURPOSE: Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of musical pitch processing. Its linguistic consequences have been examined separately for speech intonations and lexical tones. However, in a tonal language such as Chinese, the processing of intonations and lexical tones interacts with each other during online speech perception. Whether and how the musical pitch disorder might affect linguistic pitch processing during online speech perception remains unknown. METHOD: We investigated this question with intonation (question vs...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38426890/tonal-language-experience-facilitates-the-use-of-spatial-cues-for-segregating-competing-speech-in-bimodal-cochlear-implant-listeners
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Biao Chen, Xinyi Zhang, Jingyuan Chen, Ying Shi, Xinyue Zou, Ping Liu, Yongxin Li, John J Galvin, Qian-Jie Fu
English-speaking bimodal and bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users can segregate competing speech using talker sex cues but not spatial cues. While tonal language experience allows for greater utilization of talker sex cues for listeners with normal hearing, tonal language benefits remain unclear for CI users. The present study assessed the ability of Mandarin-speaking bilateral and bimodal CI users to recognize target sentences amidst speech maskers that varied in terms of spatial cues and/or talker sex cues, relative to the target...
March 1, 2024: JASA express letters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38422071/unraveling-the-contributions-of-prosodic-patterns-and-individual-traits-on-cross-linguistic-perception-of-spanish-sentence-modality
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peizhu Shang, Yuejiao Li, Yuhao Liang
Cross-linguistic perception is known to be molded by native and second language (L2) experiences. Yet, the role of prosodic patterns and individual characteristics on how speakers of tonal languages perceive L2 Spanish sentence modalities remains relatively underexplored. This study addresses the gap by analyzing the auditory performance of 75 Mandarin speakers with varying levels of Spanish proficiency. The experiment consisted of four parts: the first three collected sociolinguistic profiles and assessed participants' pragmatic competence and musical abilities...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38412710/effect-of-musical-expertise-on-the-perception-of-duration-and-pitch-in-language-a-cross-linguistic-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siqi Lyu, Nele Põldver, Liis Kask, Luming Wang, Kairi Kreegipuu
This study adopts a cross-linguistic perspective and investigates how musical expertise affects the perception of duration and pitch in language. Native speakers of Chinese (N = 44) and Estonian (N = 46), each group subdivided into musicians and non-musicians, participated in a mismatch negativity (MMN) experiment where they passively listened to both Chinese and Estonian stimuli, followed by a behavioral experiment where they attentively discriminated the stimuli in the non-native language (i...
February 26, 2024: Acta Psychologica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38412568/tonal-interference-in-word-learning-a-comparison-of-cantonese-and-french
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leonardo Piot, Hui Chen, Anthony Picaud, Maxine Dos Santos, Lionel Granjon, Zili Luo, Ann Wai Huen To, Regine Y Lai, Hintat Cheung, Thierry Nazzi
Most languages of the world use lexical tones to contrast words. Thus, understanding how individuals process tones when learning new words is fundamental for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying word learning. The current study asked how tonal information is integrated during word learning. We investigated whether variability in tonal information during learning can interfere with the learning of new words and whether this is language and age dependent. Cantonese- and French-learning 30-month-olds (N = 97) and Cantonese- and French-speaking adults (N = 50) were tested with an eye-tracking task on their ability to learn phonetically different pairs of novel words in two learning conditions: a 1-tone condition in which each object was named with a single label and a 3-tone condition in which each object was named with three different labels varying in tone...
February 26, 2024: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38393741/acquisition-of-mandarin-tones-by-canadian-first-graders-effect-of-prior-exposure-to-tonal-and-non-tonal-languages
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ana Meckelborg, Mimi Luu, Theresa Nguyen, Youran Lin, Fangfang Li, Karen Pollock
This study examines the tone productions of school-aged children with and without a tonal language background who are learning Mandarin as a second language (L2) or heritage language in Mandarin-English bilingual schools in Western Canada. Tones are frequently identified as one of the most challenging aspects of phonology for Mandarin L2 learners to acquire. In this study, tone productions of bilingual children from three home language backgrounds, English, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese, were compared for transcribed accuracy using mixed effects logistic regression...
February 1, 2024: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38156468/phonetic-effects-of-tonal-crowding-in-persian-polar-questions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vahid Sadeghi
Persian polar questions are characterized by a rise-fall followed by a low F0 plateau and a final rise. A production experiment was designed which systematically manipulated question length and the position of stress in the nuclear accented word in the question. Results revealed that distances between tones can strongly affect their scaling and alignment in predictable manner. With respect to scaling, our data show that the postnuclear low F0 target is realized considerably higher in short questions in which tonal crowding is more acute...
December 29, 2023: Language and Speech
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38152500/yembatones-a-syllable-tone-annotated-dataset-for-speech-recognition-and-prosodic-analysis-of-the-yemba-language
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marc Sturm Kenfack Jeuguim, Paulin Melatagia Yonta, Etienne Sandembouo
Prosody is a key area of linguistics that explores tonal and rhythmic variations in speech. In tonal languages such as Yemba, prosody plays a crucial role in distinguishing between words with different meanings or different grammatical forms. However, despite the large number of native speakers of this language in Cameroon, there are few resources for the speech recognition and synthesis. In this article, we present YembaTones, a syllabic and tonal annotated dataset, created from a dictionary we designed of 344 Yemba/French words coming from the most common phrases of the language, grouped according to their spellings that only differ by the tone...
February 2024: Data in Brief
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38117519/the-musical-semiotics-of-voice-in-distance-some-reflections-on-the-question-of-teleanalysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siamak Movahedi
Within the context of the debate over teleanalysis, I wish to reintroduce the discussion of voice as the primary link between analyst and patient, a link present in analysis on the phone. Far from questioning the importance of the in-person analysis, I aim to emphasize the voice, the musical semiotics of emotions, as a critical, if not the most vital, aspect of psychoanalysis as a "talking cure" and an art of listening. Insofar as the speaking is instituted in the body, the body is present through voice, even in the virtual analytic room in teleanalysis...
December 2023: Psychoanalytic Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38100473/tonal-and-syllabic-encoding-in-overt-cantonese-chinese-speech-production-an-erp-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong, Ho-Ching Chiu, Yiu-Kei Tsang, Hsuan-Chih Chen
This study was conducted to investigate how syllables and lexical tones are processed in Cantonese speech production using the picture-word interference task with concurrent recording of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Cantonese-speaking participants were asked to name aloud individually presented pictures and ignore an accompanying auditory word distractor. The target and distractor either shared the same word-initial syllable with the same tone (Tonal-Syllable related), the same word-initial syllable without the same tone (Atonal-Syllable related), the same tone only (Tone alone related), or were phonologically unrelated...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38052075/pitch-variation-skills-in-cantonese-speakers-with-apraxia-of-speech-after-stroke-preliminary-findings-of-acoustic-analyses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eddy C H Wong, Min Ney Wong, Si Chen, Joyce Y W Lin
PURPOSE: Literature on apraxia of speech (AOS) in Chinese speakers is sparse compared to the English literature. This study aims to examine the pitch variation skills of Cantonese adults with AOS poststroke in terms of perceptual tone accuracy, acoustic fundamental frequency ( f o ) changes, and repetition durations on items with different syllable structures, lexical status, and tone syllables in various positions in a sequencing context. METHOD: Six Cantonese adults with AOS poststroke (AOS group), six adults without AOS poststroke (nAOS group), and six healthy controls (HC group) performed the tone sequencing task (TST), which was adapted from oral diadochokinetic tasks, with three different tone syllables...
December 5, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38038624/interpreting-rhythm-as-parsing-syntactic-processing-operations-predict-the-migration-of-visual-flashes-as-perceived-during-listening-to-musical-rhythms
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gabriele Cecchetti, Cédric A Tomasini, Steffen A Herff, Martin A Rohrmeier
Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events, and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial task to syntactic processing in language. While this perspective has been primarily addressed in the domain of harmony, we focus here on rhythm in the Western tonal idiom, and we propose for the first time a framework for modeling the moment-by-moment execution of processing operations involved in the interpretation of music. Our approach is based on (1) a music-theoretically motivated grammar formalizing the competence of rhythmic interpretation in terms of three basic types of dependency (preparation, syncopation, and split; Rohrmeier, 2020), and (2) psychologically plausible predictions about the complexity of structural integration and memory storage operations, necessary for parsing hierarchical dependencies, derived from the dependency locality theory (Gibson, 2000)...
December 2023: Cognitive Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38017201/a-cantonese-audio-visual-emotional-speech-caves-dataset
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chee Seng Chong, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim
We present a Cantonese emotional speech dataset that is suitable for use in research investigating the auditory and visual expression of emotion in tonal languages. This unique dataset consists of auditory and visual recordings of ten native speakers of Cantonese uttering 50 sentences each in the six basic emotions plus neutral (angry, happy, sad, surprise, fear, and disgust). The visual recordings have a full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels and were recorded at 50 fps. The important features of the dataset are outlined along with the factors considered when compiling the dataset...
November 28, 2023: Behavior Research Methods
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37903780/neural-control-of-lexical-tone-production-in-human-laryngeal-motor-cortex
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Junfeng Lu, Yuanning Li, Zehao Zhao, Yan Liu, Yanming Zhu, Ying Mao, Jinsong Wu, Edward F Chang
In tonal languages, which are spoken by nearly one-third of the world's population, speakers precisely control the tension of vocal folds in the larynx to modulate pitch in order to distinguish words with completely different meanings. The specific pitch trajectories for a given tonal language are called lexical tones. Here, we used high-density direct cortical recordings to determine the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin-speaking participants. We found that instead of a tone category-selective coding, local populations in the bilateral laryngeal motor cortex (LMC) encode articulatory kinematic information to generate the pitch dynamics of lexical tones...
October 30, 2023: Nature Communications
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37885964/retracted-analysis-of-rehabilitation-occupational-therapy-techniques-based-on-instrumental-music-chinese-tonal-language-spectrogram-analysis
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Occupational Therapy International
[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/1064441.].
2023: Occupational Therapy International
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37878957/hearing-rehabilitation-with-baha%C3%A2-transcutaneous-and-percutaneous-systems
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eliane Aparecida Techi Castiquini, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga, Lucilena Miranda de Souza, Valdéia Vieira de Oliveira, Juliana Nogueira Chaves, Luiz Fernando Manzoni Lourençone, Rubens Vuono de Brito Neto
PURPOSE: Longitudinally verify the influence of auditory tonal thresholds obtained with transcutaneous and percutaneous bone-anchored hearing aids on speech perception in individuals with external and/or middle ear malformation and chronic otitis media. METHODS: Observational, retrospective, longitudinal follow-up study of 30 unilateral users of the transcutaneous and percutaneous Baha® system for the collection of secondary data on pure tone thresholds obtained through free field audiometry and sentence recognition threshold in silence and noise in conditions: without the prosthesis; at the time of activation; in the first month of use (post 1); and in the third month (post 2)...
2023: CoDAS
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37733777/the-more-the-better-effects-of-l1-tonal-density-and-typology-on-the-perception-of-non-native-tones
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Min Zhu, Fei Chen, Xiaoxiang Chen, Yuxiao Yang
This study investigates the effects of L1 tonal density and typology on naïve listeners' perception of L2 Cantonese tones and pitch-equivalent pure tones. Native speakers of two canonical tone languages (Vietnamese and Mandarin) and a pitch-accent language (Japanese) with varying degrees of tonal density were recruited as listeners in a discrimination task followed by a perceptual assimilation task. Results implied that Mandarin listeners with a sparser tone inventory exhibited significantly better performance than Vietnamese listeners, suggesting that denser tonality in L1 did not facilitate or even interfere with L2 tone perception...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37714286/statistical-learning-of-chord-transition-regularities-in-a-novel-equitempered-scale-an-mmn-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kai Ishida, Hiroshi Nittono
In music and language domains, it has been suggested that patterned transitions of sounds can be acquired implicitly through statistical learning. Previous studies have investigated the statistical learning of auditory regularities by recording early neural responses to a sequence of tones presented at high or low transition probabilities. However, it remains unclear whether the statistical learning of musical chord transitions is reflected in endogenous, regularity-dependent components of the event-related potential (ERP)...
September 14, 2023: Neuroscience Letters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37707647/pop-music-singing-in-education-with-modern-innovative-technologies-how-the-chinese-language-shapes-the-creation-of-popular-singing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luoxiao Zhang, Jiawei Hu
The purpose of this study is to investigate the uniqueness of the pop singing genre by determining the role of the Chinese language in the creation of popular singing in education with modern innovative technologies. The paper began by determining which types of popular music were the most popular among respondents and the influence of modern innovative technologies on music education. The results showed that popular folk music (25%) and popular music (23%) are the most popular genres. This is because they are based on improvisational elements and combine modern and ethnic musical elements with the use of modern innovative technologies...
September 14, 2023: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37678219/development-of-mandarin-lexical-tone-identification-in-noise-and-its-relation-with-working-memory
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fei Chen, Qingqing Guo, Yunhua Deng, Jiaqiang Zhu, Hao Zhang
PURPOSE: This study aimed to examine the developmental trajectory of Mandarin tone identification in quiet and two noisy conditions: speech-shaped noise (SSN) and multitalker babble noise. In addition, we evaluated the relationship between tonal identification development and working memory capacity. METHOD: Ninety-three typically developing children aged 5-8 years and 23 young adults completed categorical identification of two tonal continua (Tone 1-4 and Tone 2-3) in quiet, SSN, and babble noise...
September 7, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
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