TY - GEN
T1 - Vowel identity conditions the time course of tone recognition
AU - Shaw, Jason A.
AU - Tyler, Michael D.
AU - Kasisopa, Benjawan
AU - Ma, Yuan
AU - Proctor, Michael
AU - Han, Chong
AU - Derrick, Donald
AU - Burnham, Denis
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Using eye-tracking in a visual world paradigm, we sought converging evidence for the time course of Mandarin Chinese tone recognition as predicted by the availability of information in ill and past results from a gating experiment. Our results showed that tones I and 2 are recognized earlier than tone 4, followed by tone 3. With the exception of tone 2, which was recognized earlier than expected, our results are consistent with those found in gating. The speed of tone 2 recognition varied significantly across vowels in our study, part of a broader pattern whereby vowels systematically influenced the time course of tone recognition. Rising tones, tone 2 and tone 3, were recognized earliest when co-produced with /a/. The falling tone, tone 4, was recognized earliest when co-produced with /u/. Intrinsic ill and spectral cues to tone are discussed as possible explanations for the vowel quality effect.
AB - Using eye-tracking in a visual world paradigm, we sought converging evidence for the time course of Mandarin Chinese tone recognition as predicted by the availability of information in ill and past results from a gating experiment. Our results showed that tones I and 2 are recognized earlier than tone 4, followed by tone 3. With the exception of tone 2, which was recognized earlier than expected, our results are consistent with those found in gating. The speed of tone 2 recognition varied significantly across vowels in our study, part of a broader pattern whereby vowels systematically influenced the time course of tone recognition. Rising tones, tone 2 and tone 3, were recognized earliest when co-produced with /a/. The falling tone, tone 4, was recognized earliest when co-produced with /u/. Intrinsic ill and spectral cues to tone are discussed as possible explanations for the vowel quality effect.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/533339
UR - http://www.interspeech2013.org/
M3 - Conference Paper
SP - 3142
EP - 3146
BT - Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), 25-29 August 2013, Lyon, France
PB - International Speech Communication Association
T2 - International Speech Communication Association. Conference
Y2 - 25 August 2013
ER -