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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
卷 149, 期 1, 页码 435-446出版社
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/10.0003330
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- Language Learning Early Career Research Grant at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- HKRGC-GRF [15606119]
- Departmental Reward Scheme for Research Publications in Indexed Journals
This study focused on how Mandarin-speaking participants perceive and learn Cantonese level-tone contrasts, revealing an advantage for individuals with higher musical and pitch aptitude in perceiving Cantonese level-tone categories.
Contrary to studies on speech learning of consonants and vowels, the issue of individual variability is less well understood in the learning of lexical tones. Whereas existing studies have focused on contour-tone learning (Mandarin) by listeners without experience of a tonal language, this study addressed a research gap by investigating the perceptual learning of level-tone contrasts (Cantonese) by learners with experience of a contour-tone system (Mandarin). Critically, we sought to answer the question of how Mandarin listeners' initial perception and learning of Cantonese level-tones are affected by their musical and pitch aptitude. Mandarin-speaking participants completed a pretest, training, and a posttest in the level-tone discrimination and identification (ID) tasks. They were assessed in musical aptitude and speech and nonspeech pitch thresholds before training. The results revealed a significant training effect in the ID task but not in the discrimination task. Importantly, the regression analyses showed an advantage of higher musical and pitch aptitude in perceiving Cantonese level-tone categories. The results explained part of the level-tone learning variability in speakers of a contour-tone system. The finding implies that prior experience of a tonal language does not necessarily override the advantage of listeners' musical and pitch aptitude.
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