Abstract
The phonetic description and phonological analysis of Mandarin Tone 3 has been a complex issue that attracted divergent views. To better understand this tone, the current study has computed the mental representation of Tone 3 by adopting the reverse-correlation paradigm. Thirty participants (15 males, mean age = 21.94 ± 2.4 years) were recruited to compare and judge which of the two randomly generated stimuli sounded more like Tone 3. Analyses on the interaction between participants’ response and the manipulated random contour in perception of this tone has indicated that mental representation of Mandarin Tone 3 reflected some of the phonological representations (i.e., the [+low] feature) as well as preserving the phonetic characteristics (i.e., contourisity, dynamic and static portions, and durationdependency). This method has offered possibilities to better understand the nature of linguistic elements in an integrated way.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation |
| Editors | Nathaniel Oco, Shirley N. Dita, Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Jong-Bok Kim |
| Publisher | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| Pages | 1295-1300 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
| Event | The 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation [PACLIC-38] - Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan Duration: 7 Dec 2024 → 9 Dec 2024 |
Conference
| Conference | The 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation [PACLIC-38] |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 7/12/24 → 9/12/24 |