Cognitive factors in Thai-naive Mandarin speakers' imitation of Thai lexical tones

Juqiang Chen, Catherine T. Best, Mark Antoniou

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Abstract

![CDATA[The present study investigated how cognitive factors, memory load and attention control, affected imitation of Thai tones by Mandarin speakers with no prior Thai experience. Mandarin speakers lengthened the syllable duration, enlarged the F0 excursion and moved some F0 max location earlier compared with the stimuli, even in the immediate imitation condition. Talker variability had a larger impact on imitation than memory load, whereas vowel variability did not have any effect. Perceptual assimilation patterns partially influenced imitation performance, suggesting phonological categorization in imitation and a perception-production link.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCrossroads of Speech and Language: Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2019, 15-19 September 2019, Graz, Austria
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages2653-2657
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventINTERSPEECH (Conference) -
Duration: 15 Sept 2019 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)1990-9772

Conference

ConferenceINTERSPEECH (Conference)
Period15/09/19 → …

Keywords

  • Chinese speakers
  • Thai language
  • imitation
  • memory
  • second language acquisition
  • spoken Thai
  • study and teaching
  • tone (phonetics)

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