Abstract
This paper presents our investigations on the syllable-related processing during human perception of Mandarin spoken sentences. Two behavioral perception experiments were conducted employing a signal synthesis method in a previous study [1]. We found (1) a clear relationship between speech intelligibility and syllabic rates of spoken sentences and (2) significantly higher speech intelligibility of sentences acoustically segmented at sub-syllable and syllable levels than at the level beyond one syllable. We therefore revealed the optimal syllabic rates and processing units in perceiving Mandarin continuous speech and further discussed the association between our results and the possible underlying neural mechanisms in the human brain.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2477-2480 |
| 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
- Mandarin
- Optimal processing units
- Optimal syllabic rates
- Speech intelligibility
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Modelling and Simulation