Multimodal perception of Mandarin tone for cochlear implant users

Damien J. Smith; Denis K. Burnham

Multimodal perception of Mandarin tone for cochlear implant users

Damien J. Smith, Denis K. Burnham

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Abstract

![CDATA[Due to limitations of cochlear implant (CI) technology in transmitting fundamental frequency (f0), there is poor perception of lexical tone by CI users. Here simulated cochlear implant audio is used to investigate the role of visual speech information in Mandarin tone discrimination. Results showed that visual information improved tone perception in both Mandarin and Australian English listeners, particularly in CI simulation conditions, and particularly for tone pairs where tonal distinctions are cued by non-f0 components, suggesting that tone discrimination in CI users can be trained.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008
Publisher	Causal Productions
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	International Speech Communication Association. Conference - Duration: 9 Sept 2012 → …

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Conference	International Speech Communication Association. Conference
Period	9/09/12 → …

Keywords

visual speech
cochlear implants
tone (phonetics)
Mandarin dialects
English language
Australia

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Smith, DJ & Burnham, DK 2008, Multimodal perception of Mandarin tone for cochlear implant users. in Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008. Causal Productions, International Speech Communication Association. Conference, 9/09/12.

Multimodal perception of Mandarin tone for cochlear implant users. / Smith, Damien J.; Burnham, Denis K.
Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008. Causal Productions, 2008.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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