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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 169-172 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
| Volume | 2011 |
| DOIs | |
| 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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