English vowel identification and vowel formant discrimination by native Mandarin Chinese- and native English-speaking listeners: The effect of vowel duration dependence

Hearing Research
Lin MiChang Liu

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between English vowel identification and English vowel formant discrimination for native Mandarin Chinese- and native English-speaking listeners. The identification of 12 English vowels was measured with the duration cue preserved or removed. The thresholds of vowel formant discrimination on the F2 of two English vowels,/Λ/and/i/, were also estimated using an adaptive-tracking procedure. Native Mandarin Chinese-speaking listeners showed significantly higher thresholds of vowel formant discrimination and lower identification scores than native English-speaking listeners. The duration effect on English vowel identification was similar between native Mandarin Chinese- and native English-speaking listeners. Moreover, regardless of listeners' language background, vowel identification was significantly correlated with vowel formant discrimination for the listeners who were less dependent on duration cues, whereas the correlation between vowel identification and vowel formant discrimination was not significant for the listeners who were highly dependent on duration cues. This study revealed individual variability in using multiple acoustic cues to identify English vowels for bo...Continue Reading

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Dec 15, 2017·Frontiers in Psychology·Yael ZaltzNoam Amir
Nov 10, 2017·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Yuxia WangChang Liu
Nov 21, 2019·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Wei HuChang Liu
Jul 10, 2021·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Lin MiChang Liu

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