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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37637704/from-signals-to-music-a-bottom-up-approach-to-the-structure-of-neuronal-activity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gabriel D Noel, Lionel E Mugno, Daniela S Andres
INTRODUCTION: The search for the "neural code" has been a fundamental quest in neuroscience, concerned with the way neurons and neuronal systems process and transmit information. However, the term "code" has been mostly used as a metaphor, seldom acknowledging the formal definitions introduced by information theory, and the contributions of linguistics and semiotics not at all. The heuristic potential of the latter was suggested by structuralism, which turned the methods and findings of linguistics to other fields of knowledge...
2023: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37566718/does-musicianship-influence-the-perceptual-integrality-of-tones-and-segmental-information
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
William Choi, Veronica Ka Wai Lai
This study investigated the effect of musicianship on the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information in non-native speech perception. We tested 112 Cantonese musicians, Cantonese non-musicians, English musicians, and English non-musicians with a modified Thai tone AX discrimination task. In the tone discrimination task, the control block only contained tonal variations, whereas the orthogonal block contained both tonal and task-irrelevant segmental variations. Relative to their own performance in the control block, the Cantonese listeners showed decreased sensitivity index (d') and increased response time in the orthogonal block, reflecting integral perception of tones and segmental information...
August 1, 2023: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37550874/cochlear-implant-outcomes-in-the-chinese-speaking-adult-population-a-systematic-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tianyi Jia, Christopher Z Wen, Priya Arya, Natalie Riebe, Arnav Shah, James G Naples, Jianjing Kuang, Tiffany P Hwa
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to perform a systematic review of speech perception outcomes in the Chinese-speaking adult cochlear implant (CI) population. DATABASES REVIEWED: PubMed, EMbase, and Scopus. METHODS: A comprehensive English literature search was performed with MeSH search terms, keywords, and phrases. Literature written in a language other than English was not included. Full-text articles were screened by two blinded reviewers and adjudicated by a third...
September 1, 2023: Otology & Neurotology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37541306/influence-of-lexical-tone-similarity-on-spoken-word-recognition-in-mandarin-chinese-evidence-from-eye-tracking
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shuang Li, Xiuhong Tong, Wei Shen
PURPOSE: Using the visual world paradigm with the eye-tracking technique, this study examined the extent to which lexical tone similarity influences spoken word recognition. METHOD: In two experiments, participants were audibly presented with a target word and visually presented with the same target word, a tonal competitor, and two distractors, and they were required to identify the target word. In Experiment 1, the two tonal competitors shared either acoustically highly similar tones (e...
August 4, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37489914/the-form-and-function-processing-of-lexical-tone-and-intonation-in-tone-language-speaking-children-with-autism-spectrum-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Li Wang, Sanrong Xiao, Cunmei Jiang, Qingqi Hou, Alice H D Chan, Patrick C M Wong, Fang Liu
Studies on how the form versus function aspect of tone and intonation is processed by autistic individuals have mainly focused on speakers of non-tonal languages (e.g., English) with equivocal results. While the samples' heterogeneous cognitive abilities may be contributing factors, the phenotype of tone and intonation processing in autism may also vary with one's language background. Thirty-eight cognitively able autistic and 32 non-autistic Mandarin-speaking children completed tone and intonation perception tasks, each containing a function and form condition...
July 1, 2023: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37432052/creaky-voice-identification-in-mandarin-the-effects-of-prosodic-position-tone-pitch-range-and-creak-locality
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aini Li, Wei Lai, Jianjing Kuang
Creaky voice, a non-modal aperiodic phonation that is often associated with low pitch targets, has been found to not only correlate linguistically with prosodic boundary, tonal categories, and pitch range, but also socially with age, gender, and social status. However, it is still not clear whether co-varying factors such as prosodic boundary, pitch range, and tone could, in turn, affect listeners' identification of creak. To fill this gap, this current study examines how creaky voice is identified in Mandarin through experimental data, aiming to enhance our understanding of cross-linguistic perception of creaky voice and, more broadly, speech perception in multi-variable contexts...
July 1, 2023: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37425175/tone-and-word-length-across-languages
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Søren Wichmann
The aim of this paper is to show evidence of a statistical dependency of the presence of tones on word length. Other work has made it clear that there is a strong inverse correlation between population size and word length. Here it is additionally shown that word length is coupled with tonal distinctions, languages being more likely to have such distinctions when they exhibit shorter words. It is hypothesized that the chain of causation is such that population size influences word length, which, in turn, influences the presence and number of tonal distinctions...
2023: Frontiers in Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37418749/hearing-assistive-technology-facilitates-sentence-in-noise-recognition-in-chinese-children-with-autism-spectrum-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Suyun Xu, Juan Fan, Hua Zhang, Minyue Zhang, Hang Zhao, Xiaoming Jiang, Hongwei Ding, Yang Zhang
PURPOSE: Hearing assistive technology (HAT) has been shown to be a viable solution to the speech-in-noise perception (SPIN) issue in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, little is known about its efficacy in tonal language speakers. This study compared sentence-level SPIN performance between Chinese children with ASD and neurotypical (NT) children and evaluated HAT use in improving SPIN performance and easing SPIN difficulty. METHOD: Children with ASD ( n = 26) and NT children ( n = 19) aged 6-12 years performed two adaptive tests in steady-state noise and three fixed-level tests in quiet and steady-state noise with and without using HAT...
July 7, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37403498/phylogenetic-insight-into-the-origin-of-tones
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Baihui Wu, Hanzhi Zhang, Menghan Zhang
The origin of tone, also known as tonogenesis , has long been a topic of great interest in language evolution and human cognition studies. Several linguistic studies of tonal languages have proposed various hypotheses that tonal origin may be related to different changes of phonological structures. However, such hypotheses have not been quantitatively tested in an evolutionary framework. Here, we conducted phylogenetic comparative analyses to assess the likelihood of different hypotheses of tonogenetic mechanisms across 106 Sino-Tibetan languages, of which approximately 70% are tonal...
July 12, 2023: Proceedings. Biological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37294753/decoding-and-synthesizing-tonal-language-speech-from-brain-activity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yan Liu, Zehao Zhao, Minpeng Xu, Haiqing Yu, Yanming Zhu, Jie Zhang, Linghao Bu, Xiaoluo Zhang, Junfeng Lu, Yuanning Li, Dong Ming, Jinsong Wu
Recent studies have shown that the feasibility of speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) as a clinically valid treatment in helping nontonal language patients with communication disorders restore their speech ability. However, tonal language speech BCI is challenging because additional precise control of laryngeal movements to produce lexical tones is required. Thus, the model should emphasize the features from the tonal-related cortex. Here, we designed a modularized multistream neural network that directly synthesizes tonal language speech from intracranial recordings...
June 9, 2023: Science Advances
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37267600/perception-of-grammatical-tone-in-akan-patients-with-left-and-right-hemisphere-brain-damage
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Frank Tsiwah, Srdjan Popov, Roelien Bastiaanse
It remains a matter of debate what roles the left and right hemispheres play in processing speech prosody. Brain lesion studies have demonstrated that lexical tone perception among native speakers of tonal languages is more disrupted in left hemisphere damaged (LHD) individuals than right hemisphere damaged (RHD) individuals. This has been taken to suggest that linguistically-relevant prosodic cues are predominantly left-lateralised, whereas non-linguistic stimuli are predominantly right-lateralised. However, this phenomenon has only been examined in lexical tone, leaving grammatical tone perception unexplored...
June 2, 2023: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37267445/tone-deafness-in-music-does-not-preclude-distributional-learning-of-nonnative-tonal-languages-in-individuals-with-congenital-amusia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiaqiang Zhu, Xiaoxiang Chen, Fei Chen, Caicai Zhang, Jing Shao, Seth Wiener
PURPOSE: Previous studies have shown that individuals with congenital amusia exhibit deficient pitch processing across music and language domains. This study investigated whether adult Chinese-speaking listeners with amusia were still able to learn Thai lexical tones based on stimulus frequency of statistical distribution via distributional learning, despite their degraded lexical tone perception. METHOD: Following a pretest-training-posttest design, 21 amusics and 23 typical, musically intact listeners were assigned into bimodal and unimodal distribution conditions...
June 2, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37220737/language-and-music-singing-voices-and-music-talent
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Frédéric Theunissen
Native speakers of tonal languages show enhanced musical melody perception but diminished rhythm abilities. This effect has now been rigorously demonstrated in a new study that tested the musical IQ of half a million human participants across the globe.
May 22, 2023: Current Biology: CB
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37113109/playing-with-fire-compounds-the-tonal-accents-of-compounds-in-north-norwegian-preschoolers-role-play-register
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bror-Magnus S Strand
Prosodic features are some of the most salient features of dialect variation in Norway. It is therefore no wonder that the switch in prosodic systems is what is first recognized by caretakers and scholars when Norwegian children code-switch to something resembling the dialect of the capital (henceforth Urban East Norwegian, UEN) in role-play. With a focus on the system of lexical tonal accents, this paper investigates the spontaneous speech of North Norwegian children engaging in peer social role-play. By investigating F0 contours extracted from a corpus of spontaneous peer play, and comparing them with elicited baseline reference contours, this paper makes the case that children fail to apply the target tonal accent consistent with UEN in compounds in role-play, although the production of tonal accents otherwise seems to be phonetically target like UEN...
April 27, 2023: Language and Speech
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37105166/language-experience-predicts-music-processing-in-a-half-million-speakers-of-fifty-four-languages
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jingxuan Liu, Courtney B Hilton, Elika Bergelson, Samuel A Mehr
Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to shape auditory processing in ways that generalize beyond the perception of linguistic pitch to the perception of pitch in other domains like music. We conducted a meta-analysis of prior studies testing this idea, finding moderate evidence supporting it. But prior studies were limited by mostly small sample sizes representing a small number of languages and countries, making it challenging to disentangle the effects of linguistic experience from variability in music training, cultural differences, and other potential confounds...
April 18, 2023: Current Biology: CB
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37097428/the-co-evolution-of-language-and-music-under-human-self-domestication
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Aleksey Nikolsky
Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in our species. In this paper, we advance a new model of music evolution that builds on the self-domestication view of human evolution, according to which the human phenotype is, at least in part, the outcome of a process similar to domestication in other mammals, triggered by the reduction in reactive aggression responses to environmental changes...
June 2023: Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37096930/perceptual-sensitivity-to-tonal-alignment-in-nuer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siri Gjersøe, Bert Remijsen
This paper examines the perceptual threshold in patterns of tonal timing (alignment) of Falling versus Low tones. The results indicate a remarkable sensitivity among the listeners. In a perception experiment with 30 participants, we tested how native speakers of the West Nilotic language Nuer responded to stimuli in which the timing of the F0 fall that distinguishes Low versus Fall following a High target is manipulated. We measured the threshold for the responses to shift tone perception from 25% to 75%. The results show that listeners only needed an average of 19 ms to differentiate between the melodic shapes and as little as 13 ms for one item...
April 25, 2023: Language and Speech
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37084611/long-term-auditory-performance-and-psychosocial-benefits-of-cochlear-implantation-in-mandarin-speaking-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yi-Hao Lee, Pei-Hsuan Ho, Pey-Yu Chen, Xiang-Xiang Chen, Yung-Chen Sun, Chia-Huei Chu, Hung-Ching Lin
PURPOSE: Although previous studies have shown the efficacy of cochlear implants (CIs) in older adults, no study written in English has focused on Mandarin-speaking older recipients. Mandarin is a tonal language, it is hard to lip-read and tone recognition for CI users. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term post-CI outcomes in Mandarin-speaking older adults and the difference between them and younger recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-six post-lingually deafened adults were included...
March 31, 2023: American Journal of Otolaryngology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37018230/emotional-tones-of-voice-affect-the-acoustics-and-perception-of-mandarin-tones
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hui-Shan Chang, Chao-Yang Lee, Xianhui Wang, Shuenn-Tsong Young, Cheng-Hsuan Li, Woei-Chyn Chu
Lexical tones and emotions are conveyed by a similar set of acoustic parameters; therefore, listeners of tonal languages face the challenge of processing lexical tones and emotions in the acoustic signal concurrently. This study examined how emotions affect the acoustics and perception of Mandarin tones. In Experiment 1, Mandarin tones were produced by professional actors with angry, fear, happy, sad, and neutral tones of voice. Acoustic analyses on mean F0, F0 range, mean amplitude, and duration were conducted on syllables excised from a carrier phrase...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37009456/the-longitudinal-relationship-between-hearing-loss-and-cognitive-decline-in-tonal-language-speaking-older-adults-in-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xinxing Fu, Robert H Eikelboom, Bo Liu, Shuo Wang, Dona M P Jayakody
INTRODUCTION: Previous longitudinal studies indicate that hearing loss and cognitive impairment are associated in non-tonal language-speaking older adults. This study aimed to investigate whether there is a longitudinal association between hearing loss and cognitive decline in older adults who speak a tonal language. METHODS: Chinese-speaking older adults aged 60 years and above were recruited for baseline and 12 month follow-up measurements. All participants completed a pure tone audiometric hearing test, Hearing Impaired-Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (HI-MoCA), and a Computerized Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB)...
2023: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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