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Discrimination of tone contrasts in Mandarin disyllables by naive American English listeners.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Discrimination of tone contrasts in Mandarin disyllables by naive American English listeners./
Author:	Berkowitz, Shari Salzhauer.
Description:	1 online resource (79 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: B, page: 6734.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-11B.
Subject:	Speech therapy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781124253299

Discrimination of tone contrasts in Mandarin disyllables by naive American English listeners.
Berkowitz, Shari Salzhauer.

Discrimination of tone contrasts in Mandarin disyllables by naive American English listeners. - 1 online resource (79 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: B, page: 6734.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

The present study examined the perception of Mandarin disyllabic tones by inexperienced American English speakers. Participants heard two naturally-produced Mandarin disyllables, and indicated if the two were the same or different. A small native Mandarin-speaking control group participated as well. All 21 possible Mandarin contrasts where the initial syllable varied but the final syllable stayed the same were tested. Acoustic analysis was performed on the stimuli under study. Mandarin subjects scored at ceiling on all contrasts. American English subjects performed poorly on contrasts where the difference in mean F0 was small, or where the difference in the offset F0 of the first syllable was small. They also performed poorly when the difference in slope of the final syllable was small. Previous research has proposed that American English listeners attend primarily to the height difference between two tone stimuli, but here they attended to height in the first syllable and contour in the second syllable.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781124253299Subjects--Topical Terms:

715798
Speech therapy.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Discrimination of tone contrasts in Mandarin disyllables by naive American English listeners.
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