Tonal language speakers outperform non-tonal language speakers in behavioral pitch discrimination. Because the tone system differs in complexity across different tonal languages, it is unknown whether pitch discrimination differs across individuals speaking different tonal languages. There are nine tones in Dong but only four in Mandarin. This study investigates whether behavioral pitch discrimination is superior in Dong speakers compared to Mandarin speakers. Behavioral pitch discrimination was indexed by difference limens measured using pure tones and harmonic tones. The results indicate that Dong speakers outperformed Mandarin speakers in pitch discrimination tasks.
The paper makes a quantitative analysis and comparison on the continuous speech emotion of Lhasa Tibetan in the four basic emotional patterns (happy, surprise, sad, neutral) pitch, energy and time length by experimental phonetics and the linear statistical research methods, found that there is a positive correlation between the Lhasa Tibetan emotional speech and pitch, energy and duration ,etc. And the pitch, energy and duration of negative emotion acoustic parameters are bigger than positive emotion, on this basis, drawing the Lhasa Tibetan speech emotion acoustic feature patterns. Compared with the Chinese language and the Tibetan, even though both have the tone prosodic features, they also have significant differences in the acoustic characteristics of the speech emotion.
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