Perceptual confusability of Mandarin sounds, tones and syllables

Bhamini Sharma; Chang Liu; Yao Yao

Perceptual confusability of Mandarin sounds, tones and syllables

Bhamini Sharma
, Chang Liu
, Yao Yao

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This paper reports a perceptual identification study for Mandarin sounds, tones and whole syllables, using phonotactically plausible non-word stimuli covered in white noise. The results showed that while the accuracy of whole-syllable identification could be estimated by the independent accuracy of initial and final identification, syllable-level confusability patterns were related to, but not fully predictable from the confusability patterns of initials and finals. Implications of the results on modeling Mandarin phonological neighborhoods are also discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015
Event	International Congress of Phonetic Science [ICPhS] - Duration: 1 Jan 2015 → …

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