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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mandarin tones"”.
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The Production and Identification of Mandarin Tones in Context
… the thesis 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 …
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Effects of training methods on second language learning of Mandarin tones
… investigates the teaching and learning of Mandarin tones. Specifically, it focuses on pedagogical issues relating to the third tone (T3), which developed from different theoretical assumptions concerning the default feature of T3. There are two main assumptions regarding the standard form …
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Brain plasticity in speech training in native English speakers learning mandarin tones
… American 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 …
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An Investigation of American Students’ Tonal Acquisition towards Disyllabic Words with Same or Different Tones
<p>Mastering Mandarin tones is an indispensable path to achieving high Chinese language proficiency and a headache to a lot of American learners. Scholars keep studying this area, but this problem remains unsolved.</p> <p>Through long-time observation of beginners, I found an interesting …
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Optimizing lexical learning by manipulating phonological training
… English speakers (N=40) learned to categorize Mandarin tones in one of four training regimens. Participants in a Reflect→Reflex condition were initially presented with a training environment designed to enhance reflective learning and then with an environment designed to enhance reflexive …
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Taking attention away from the auditory modality : investigations of the effect on speech processing using machine learning
… of 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 …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
… speakers. Adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin whose native language is non-tonal may need to acquire left hemisphere dominance of pitch processing for successful tone learning. L2 learners of Mandarin have to acquire new perceptual categories for discriminating and identifying lexical …
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Lyrics generation constrained by tone, melody and imagery
… generation. As the lyrics I aim to create are in Mandarin, the method has to achieve melody--tone matching. Different representations of Mandarin tones are possible, depending on how many different tone heights are defined, from 3 to 6 heights. Experimentally, I find that the lyrics generator that …