The categorical perception of Mandarin tones in normal aging seniors and seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Yan Feng; Yaru Meng; Gang Peng

The categorical perception of Mandarin tones in normal aging seniors and seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Yan Feng
, Yaru Meng
, Gang Peng

Department of Language Science and Technology

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

Aging plays an important role in cognitive degradation. This study examined the behavioural performance of the categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin tones in young adults, normal aging older people, and those with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The results revealed that in the identification
function, boundary width of tone perception in MCI seniors was wider than that in young adults. In the discrimination function, the between-category accuracy in the MCI group was also significantly lower than that in young adults. No significant decline in tone perception was found in normal aging seniors, although they showed worse hearing sensitivity and cognitive ability compared with young adults. Our behavioural findings supported that the compensation mechanism might be observed in older people with normal performance, rather than those with degraded performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)
Editors	Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren
Pages	909-913
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
Event	The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019

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Conference	The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	5/08/19 → 9/08/19

Keywords

Categorical perception
Mandarin tone
aging effect
cognitive degradation
compensation

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Feng, Y, Meng, Y & Peng, G 2019, The categorical perception of Mandarin tones in normal aging seniors and seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment. in S Calhoun, P Escudero, M Tabain & P Warren (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). pp. 909-913, The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 5/08/19. <http://hdl.handle.net/10397/95989>

The categorical perception of Mandarin tones in normal aging seniors and seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment. / Feng, Yan; Meng, Yaru; Peng, Gang.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). ed. / Sasha Calhoun; Paola Escudero; Marija Tabain; Paul Warren. 2019. p. 909-913.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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