Age-related differences of tone perception in Mandarin-speaking seniors

Yan Feng; Gang Peng; William Shi Yuan Wang

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2194

Age-related differences of tone perception in Mandarin-speaking seniors

Yan Feng, Gang Peng, William Shi Yuan Wang

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

This study examined age-related differences in categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones through comparing identification and discrimination performance among young adults, seniors aged 60-65 years, and older seniors aged 75-80 years. Results showed a significantly wider boundary and smaller peakedness in older seniors. There was also a positive correlation between the hearing level at 125 Hz and boundary width, and a negative correlation between hearing level (125 Hz) and peakedness in older seniors, indicating that the decline of tone perception in this population might be associated with degradation of hearing sensitivity. However, there was no significant difference between young adults and seniors aged 60-65 years, which might reveal that younger seniors could maintain normal ability to perceive tones categorically.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020
Pages	1629-1633
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2194
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020
Event	interspeech 2020 - Shanghai, China Duration: 19 Oct 2020 → …

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Conference	interspeech 2020
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	19/10/20 → …

Keywords

Age-related decline
Categorical perception
Mandarin
Tone

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10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2194

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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020. 2020. p. 1629-1633.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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