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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Lexical Tones"”.
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Audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones.
… focused on audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones. The results of the experiments which employed behavioural and event-related potential measures provided evidence that visual information has an effect on auditory lexical tone perception. First, lexical tone perception benefits from …
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Lexical and post-lexical tones in Akan
… factors that contribute to the surface forms of tones in connected speech in Akan. Akan is an African tone language, which is spoken in Ghana. It has two level tones (low and high), automatic and non-automatic downstep. Downstep is the major factor that influences the surface forms of tones. The …
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Comparing Human Perception to Computational Classifications of Lexical Tones
… The results reveal that the classifications of lexical tone categories made by the computational model yield some dissimilar learning patterns to that found in human perceptual learning of the same categories.
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Brain plasticity in speech training in native English speakers learning mandarin tones
… English-speaking listeners to perceive Mandarin lexical tones. Behavioral identification and discrimination tasks were conducted using naturally recorded speech, carefully controlled synthetic speech, and non-speech control stimuli. The ERP experiments were conducted with selected synthetic …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
… hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal language speakers. Adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin whose native language is non-tonal …
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Taking attention away from the auditory modality : investigations of the effect on speech processing using machine learning
… linguistically-relevant pitch contours (Mandarin tones), a suprasegmental feature that is critical to the percept of lexical tones. Further, we provide novel evidence that the impact of the visual load is highly dependent on the predictability of the incoming speech stream. In study 2, we utilized …
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Intonation in Luo
… that Luo is a tone-terracing language with four lexical tones: High, Low, Falling and Rising. The observed downtrends are downstep, declination and final lowering. Downstep is the most significant process, contrasting automatic and non-automatic downstep. The latter has no evidence of floating L …
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The Production and Identification of Mandarin Tones in Context
… is to study the acoustic variation of Mandarin tones produced in context by native Mandarin speakers (Study I) and how these acoustic variations of Mandarin tones influence L2 learners’ identification of Mandarin tones (Study II). Study I revealed that both F0 contour and F0 height of the two …
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A Phonological Study of the Tegem Language
… in meaning distinction. The study is based on lexical items collected from two Tegem language speakers via wordlists elicitation sessions. That provides the core basis for a detailed foundational description of the phonetic and phonological features of consonants, consonant sequences, vowels, …
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Singing in Chaozhou: The Relationship between Tones and Songs
… what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones are preserved when they are sung. This thesis explores the relationship between lexical tones and musical pitch in Chaozhou, a Southern Chinese language characterised by eight tones in isolated speech and even more tonal variations in …