24.1242, Books: Universal Biases in the Perception of Mandarin tones, from infancy to adulthood: Chen

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:43:17
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Universal Biases in the Perception of Mandarin tones, from infancy to adulthood: Chen

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Title: Universal Biases in the Perception of Mandarin tones, from
infancy to adulthood 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Ao Chen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930997 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 23.60

Abstract:

The dissertation investigates the possible innate perceptual biases that may
shape the phonological rule in Mandarin, T3 sandhi. T3 sandhi restricts the
co-occurrence of two T3s and requires the first T3 to change to a T2. A second
goal of the dissertation is to examine the cross-domain perception of pitch
from infancy to adulthood. Mandarin and Dutch adult listeners participated in
a categorical perception experiment and a speeded AX discrimination task. It
is found that Mandarin listeners perceive Mandarin the T2-T3 contrast
categorically while Dutch listeners perceive this contrast in a
psycho-acoustical manner. Nevertheless, both groups of listeners are more
accurate in discriminating T2 and T3 if T3 occurs first in the
to-be-discriminated pair. This consistency provides strong evidence that there
are innate perceptual biases favoring T3 sandhi to occur in such a positional
and asymmetrical way. Dutch infants show easier categorization of T3 than of
T2. Hence, the discrimination asymmetry can be a result that T3 works as a
better referent in discrimination. Positive significant correlation between
musical pitch processing and Mandarin lexical tone discrimination is observed
among Dutch adult listeners but not Mandarin adult listeners. Dutch young
infants (4 and 6 months old) show facilitated processing of musical pitch
while they keep showing difficulties in discriminating Mandarin T2-T3
contrast, which suggests separate music and speech processing from early
infancy. Mandarin infants do not outperform Dutch infants in either musical
pitch processing or lexical tone discrimination. No evidence has been found
for the correlation between the perception of musical pitch and the perception
of lexical tones in early infancy. This dissertation is of interest to
psycholinguists, phonologists, and those who work in early perception
development in infancy.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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