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Emotional tones of voice affect the acoustics and perception of Mandarin tones.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Lexical tones and emotions are conveyed by a similar set of acoustic parameters; therefore, listeners of tonal languages face the challenge of processing lexical tones and emotions in the acoustic signal concurrently.
Hui-Shan Chang +5 more
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Simulation of hearing loss can induce pitch shifts for complex tones [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Most studies on pitch shift provoked by hearing loss have been conducted using pure tones. However, many sounds encountered in everyday life are harmonic complex tones.
Issei Ichimiya, Hiroko Ichimiya
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Factors limiting performance in a multitone intensity-discrimination task: disentangling non-optimal decision weights and increased internal noise. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 To identify factors limiting performance in multitone intensity discrimination, we presented sequences of five pure tones alternating in level between loud (85 dB SPL) and soft (30, 55, or 80 dB SPL). In the "overall-intensity task", listeners detected a
Daniel Oberfeld +2 more
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Floating tones and contour tones in Kenyang
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 Tonal alternations in the Bantu language Kenyang appear on first consideration to be rather complicated but yield to analysis into a small number of rules, which reveal interesting properties of floating tones, contour tones, and the tone-bearing unit in
David Odden
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Database Creation and Dialect-Wise Comparative Analysis of Prosodic Features for Punjabi Language
Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2019 The paper represents a Punjabi corpus in the agriculture domain. There are various dialects in the Punjabi language and the main concentration is on major dialects, i.e. Majhi, Malwai and Doabi for the present study. A speech corpus of 125 isolated words
Arora Shipra J., Singh Rishipal
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Identifying the acoustic features in tonal phonemes in Chinese
Glottodidactica, 2015 The current paper refers to the particular phonetic and phonological substance of the Chinese language. The key topics include the acoustic features of tonal languages, speech sound and audio-perception, as well as some issues of acquisition of Chinese ...
Ewa Zajdler
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The more the better? Effects of L1 tonal density and typology on the perception of non-native tones.
PLoS ONE, 2023 This study investigates the effects of L1 tonal density and typology on naïve listeners' perception of L2 Cantonese tones and pitch-equivalent pure tones.
Min Zhu +3 more
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Cogent Psychology, 2019 An important issue in language acquisition is understanding the function of suprasegmental information (e.g., tones) in spoken word recognition. Recent research found that three-year-old monolingual Mandarin learners recognized Mandarin words that were ...
Weiyi Ma, Peng Zhou
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TONE TEACHING PLAN DESIGNED FOR INDONESIAN CHINESE BEGINNERS
Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2019 Chinese is a tonal language, and Chinese tones can differentiate meanings of Chinese characters. In contrast, Indonesian is a language without tones, which explains why Indonesians have trouble acquiring tones when beginning to learn Chinese.
Haryono Candra
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Nature, 1875 IN the Very favourable estimate of the work I have done in my translation of Helmholtz, in your number for Sept. 23, I am aken rather severely to task for my use of “Sensations of Tone” on my title-page, and my refusal to use the expression overtones in the body of the work. The title was long a matter of anxious consideration to me, and I have not yet
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