The effect of lexical status on the perception of tone
成词状况对声调感知的影响
Robert Allen Fox; James Unkefer

Abstract 摘要
Chinese and American subjects were requested to identify speech tokens from four different Tone 1-Tone 2 continua. These continua represented a word/word continuum ([FEI1]-[FEI2]), a word/nonword continuum ([HEI1]-[HEI2]), a nonword/word continuum ([SHEI1]-[SHEI2], a nonword/nonword continuum ([DEI1]-[DEI2]) in Mandarin. Results showed that the tonal category boundaries of Chinese subjects were shifted in the direction of the nonword endpoints for both the word/nonword and nonword/word continua relative to the word/word continuum. The American subjects showed no such shift. These data were interpreted as suggesting that the lexical status of a speech token may significantly affect phonetic processing.

我们要求中国和美国实验参加者辨认由四种不同的阴平→阳平连续过渡所组成的言语音节片段。这些连续过渡分别为词/词过渡（从[FEI1]到[FEI2]），词/非词过渡（从[HEI1]到[HEI2]），非词/词过渡（从[SHEI1]到[SHEI2]），以及非词/非词过渡（从[DEI1]到[DEI2]）（对北京话来说）。实验结果表明中国参加者的调间分界在词/非词和非词/词过渡中均朝非同方向移动。在词/词过渡中则没有这种移动。美国参加者也没有移动的迹象，这些结果我们解释为：言语音节片段的成词状况可能相当大地影响人们对语音材料的接收处理。

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