Categorical perception of lexical tones in native Mandarin-speaking listeners with sensorineural hearing loss

Acta Oto-laryngologica
Beier QiBo Liu

Abstract

Categorical perception (CP) of lexical tones was examined in normal hearing (NH) people, but it was unclear whether lexical tones can be perceived categorically in sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) people. To explore the characteristic of lexical tone perception in native Mandarin speakers with SNHL. Three types of continuum (Tone1/Tone2, Tone1/Tone4 and Tone2/Tone3) were constructed and each of them includes 15 stimuli which were resynthesized by applying the pitch-synchronous overlap and add (PSOLA) method implemented in Praat to the same Mandarin syllable, /a/, with a high-level tone produced by a female speaker. Forty native Mandarin NH speakers and 23 native Mandarin speakers with mild to moderate SNHL were recruited. A two alternative-forced-choice identification task was used to acquire the tonal perceptual data. All tone perception curves owns the characteristic of CP in SNHL subjects. All tone perception curves were S-shape in SNHL subjects same as those in NH subjects. No significant difference of each continuum was observed between SNHL and NH. CP of lexical tone perception could be observed in native Mandarin speakers with mild to moderate SNHL. The slight damage in the peripheral auditory system did not change char...Continue Reading

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Apr 1, 2021·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Yuxia WangChang Liu

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