Formant discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds for English and Chinese listeners

被引：10

作者：

Liu, Chang ^{[1
]}

Tao, Sha ^{[2
]}

Wang, Wenjing ^{[2
]}

Dong, Qi ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Commun Sci & Disorders, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[2] Beijing Normal Univ, Natl Key Lab Cognit Neurosci & Learning, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | 2012年 / 132卷 / 03期

关键词：

FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VOWELS;

D O I：

10.1121/1.4742318

中图分类号：

O42 [声学];

学科分类号：

070206 ; 082403 ;

摘要：

Thresholds of formant discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds were compared for native listeners of English and Chinese. English listeners showed significantly better thresholds than Chinese listeners, not only for English vowels, but also for Chinese vowels. Thresholds for vowel-spectrum-shaped noise were comparable for the two groups. These results suggest that English listeners are more sensitive to formant frequency changes of vowel stimuli than Chinese listeners, possibly due to the denser vowel space for English than for Mandarin Chinese. However, the psychophysical capacity to discriminate formant frequency changes in non-speech sounds is similar for English and Chinese listeners. (C) 2012 Acoustical Society of America

引用

页码：EL189 / EL195

页数：7

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