Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

Moore, Corinne B.; Jongman, Allard

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“…Moore and Jongman (1997) also found that speech contexts with a talker 's F0 8 information affected the identification of talker-ambiguous tone stimuli in a contrastive way.…”

Section: Extrinsic Normalizationmentioning

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“…There is plenty of evidence that listeners estimate the location/identity of a lexical tone according to the distribution of a talker's speaking F0 in a speech context (Chen & Peng, 2015;Francis, Ciocca, Wong, Leung, & Chu, 2006;Huang & Holt, 2009;Leather, 1983;Lin & Wang, 1984;Moore & Jongman, 1997;Wong & Diehl, 2003;Zhang et al, 2012Zhang et al, , 2013. Lin and Wang (1984) investigated how the relative F0 height of a single-word context affected the perception of Mandarin tones.…”

Section: Extrinsic Normalizationmentioning

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Toward an integrative model of talker normalization.

Zhang¹,

Chen²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Successful speech perception requires accurate mapping of speech signals to linguistic categories despite talker variation in signals. Although factors like intrinsic and context cues have been identified, a full understanding of talker normalization remains to be achieved. In particular, it is important to examine the cocontribution of intrinsic, extrinsic and other cues in an integrative way. In Experiment 1, we examined the effect of intrinsic cues and typicality of a talker’s F0 range relative to population F0 range on word identification in isolation. In Experiment 2, we compared the effects of 4 contexts to identify those that consistently facilitate talker normalization. We found that without contexts, word identification accuracy was low and variable depending on talker typicality. Contexts improved performance across all talkers regardless of typicality. But only meaningless and meaningful speech contexts with cues to a talker’s acoustic-phonological space showed consistent effects. We proposed a new model, integrating talker typicality, talker familiarity, and context. Whereas speech signals from familiar or typical talkers may be accurately identified standing alone, a context with cues to a talker’s acoustic-phonological space is necessary in the case of unfamiliar and atypical talkers. It is thus the first model that integrates memory and context effects.

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“…Moore and Jongman (1997) also found that speech contexts with a talker 's F0 8 information affected the identification of talker-ambiguous tone stimuli in a contrastive way.…”

Section: Extrinsic Normalizationmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Extrinsic Normalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward an integrative model of talker normalization.

Zhang¹,

Chen²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…Research by Moore and Jongman (1997) and Wong and Diehl (in press) showed that identification of level tone categories is facilitated by knowledge of the talker's pitch range. The results of the present identification experiment are consistent with the hypothesis that listeners use extrinsic information about the talker's pitch range to estimate the location of tone category boundaries.…”

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“…Research by Wong and Diehl (in press), Moore and Jongman (1997), and Leather (1983, among others, sug-gests that listeners' ability to accurately locate boundaries between tone categories is facilitated by the presence of external contextual information about the talker's pitch range. Therefore, we might expect a tone continuum presented in sentential context to exhibit more evidence of categorical perception (sharper identification boundaries, stronger discrimination peaks across boundaries) than was observed in Experiment 1 for stimuli presented out of context.…”

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On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones

Francis

Ciocca

2003

Perception & Psychophysics

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Identification and discrimination of lexical tones in Cantonese were compared in the context of a traditional categoricalperception paradigm. Three lexical tone continua were used: one ranging from low level to high level, one from high rising to high level, and one from low falling to high rising. Identification data showed steep slopes at category boundaries, suggesting that lexical tones are perceived categorically. In contrast, discrimination curves generally showed much weaker evidence for categorical perception. Subsequent investigation showed that the presence of a tonal context played a strong role in the identification of target tones and less of a role in discrimination. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that tonal category boundaries are determined by a combination of regions of natural auditory sensitivity and the influence of linguistic experience.

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“…They found that onset, offset, and turning of the pitch contour (defined as the duration from the onset of the tone to the point of change in F0 direction) are relevant to tone perception. Moore and Jongman, who worked on tone 2 and tone 3, reached the conclusion that both the turning point and ∆ F0 (the decrease in F0 from the onset of the tone to the turning point) would affect tone perception [3]. Afterwards, researchers paid more attention on tones 2 and 3, and reached their own observations [4,5,6,7].…”

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Tone Enhancing Model for Disyllable Words in Chinese Mandarin Speech

Jiang¹,

Jia²,

Tian³

et al. 2014

Appl. Math. Inf. Sci.

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Tone recognition is the core function in Chinese speech perception. The tone perception ability of people with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is often weaker than normal people. Automatically tone enhancement would be useful in helping them understand Chinese speech better. In this paper, we focus on the tone enhancing model for Chinese disyllable words. We first analyze the acoustic features related to tone perception. By agglomerative hierarchical clustering method, the first and second syllables of disyllable words are clustered into 6 clusters respectively. Discriminative features of these clusters are experimentally determined from a set of possible features related to tone perception, such as the pitch value, pitch range and position of minimum pitch, etc. We further propose a practicable tone enhancing model with these discriminative features: 1) an input pitch contour is classified by calculating the distance between it and the centroid of each cluster, and 2) selecting the smallest distance, then the unclassified pitch contour belongs to this cluster, 3) the pitch contour is modified for tone enhancement with model parameters corresponding to this cluster using TD-PSOLA. Both statistical and subjective experiments show that higher hit rate of tone recognition can be obtained after tone enhancement with the proposed model. Especially, the proposed enhancing model can also avoid traditional tone recognition, which is more convictive and less laborious.

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Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

Cited by 180 publications

References 27 publications

Toward an integrative model of talker normalization.

Toward an integrative model of talker normalization.

On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones

Tone Enhancing Model for Disyllable Words in Chinese Mandarin Speech

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