Effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration

Caicai Zhang; Gang Peng; William Shi Yuan Wang

Effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration

Caicai Zhang, Gang Peng, William Shi Yuan Wang

Research output: Journal article publication › Conference article › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration distinction. By comparing Cantonese and Mandarin listeners' performances, we found that: (1) duration change elicited categorical perception in the performance of Cantonese listeners, but not in Mandarin listeners; (2) Cantonese listeners were affected by the vowel quality differences, whereas Mandarin subjects were generally unbiased towards the quality differences; (3) effect of duration was overridden by the vowel quality [a] condition in the performance of Cantonese listeners. Our findings suggested that vowel quality is incorporated as a phonological cue in Cantonese.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-172
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011 - Florence, Italy Duration: 27 Aug 2011 → 31 Aug 2011

Keywords

Cantonese
Categorical perception
Duration
Vowel quality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing
Software
Modelling and Simulation

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Effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration. / Zhang, Caicai ; Peng, Gang ; Wang, William Shi Yuan.
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 01.12.2011, p. 169-172.

Research output: Journal article publication › Conference article › Academic research › peer-review

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Effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration

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