Perception of Glottalization in Varying Pitch Contexts in Mandarin Chinese
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2014-05-20Author
Bissiri, Maria Paola
Zellers, M.
Ding, H.
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Bissiri, M., Zellers, M. & Ding, H. (3914) Perception of Glottalization in Varying Pitch
Contexts in Mandarin Chinese, Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, pp. 633-637.
Abstract
Although glottalization has often been associated with low
pitch, evidence from a number of sources supports the
assertion that this association is not obligatory, and is likely to
be language-specific. Following a previous study testing
perception of glottalization by German, English, and Swedish
listeners, the current research investigates the influence of
pitch context on the perception of glottalization by native
speakers of a tone language, Mandarin Chinese. Listeners
heard AXB sets in which they were asked to match glottalized
stimuli with pitch contours. We find that Mandarin listeners
tend not to be influenced by the pitch context when judging
the pitch of glottalized stretches of speech. These data lend
support to the idea that the perception of glottalization varies
in relation to language-specific prosodic structure.
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