Lexically guided perceptual learning in Mandarin Chinese

L. Ann Burchfield, San-hei Kenny Luk, Mark Antoniou, Anne Cutler

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Abstract

![CDATA[Lexically guided perceptual learning refers to the use of lexical knowledge to retune speech categories and thereby adapt to a novel talker's pronunciation. This adaptation has been extensively documented, but primarily for segmental-based learning in English and Dutch. In languages with lexical tone, such as Mandarin Chinese, tonal categories can also be retuned in this way, but segmental category retuning had not been studied. We report two experiments in which Mandarin Chinese listeners were exposed to an ambiguous mixture of [f] and [s] in lexical contexts favoring an interpretation as either [f] or [s]. Listeners were subsequently more likely to identify sounds along a continuum between [f] and [s], and to interpret minimal word pairs, in a manner consistent with this exposure. Thus lexically guided perceptual learning of segmental categories had indeed taken place, consistent with suggestions that such learning may be a universally available adaptation process.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), August 20-24, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages576-580
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
EventINTERSPEECH (Conference) -
Duration: 20 Aug 2017 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)1990-9772

Conference

ConferenceINTERSPEECH (Conference)
Period20/08/17 → …

Keywords

  • Chinese language
  • Mandarin dialects
  • phonology
  • speech perception

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