The evaluation and integration of pitch height and pitch contour in lexical tone perception in Mandarin Chinese
普通话声调感知中音高和曲拱的赋值和综合
Dominic W. Massaro; Michael M. Cohen; Chiu-yu Tseng 郑秋豫

Abstract 摘要
This study investigated the evaluation and integration of pitch height and pitch contour in the perception of tones in Mandarin Chinese. A fuzzy logical model of perception was used as a framework for the study. An important theoretical assumption was that speech sounds are perceived in terms of continuous acoustic properties. The experiment provided an assessment of the relative importance of the F0 height and the F0 contour during the vowel of a syllable to tone perception. Both the F0 contour and the F0 height influenced the perceptual recognition of tone. The cues were about equally effective. As in the perception of many other contrasts, lexical tone appears to be recognized on the basis of, at least, two cues, and the influence of one cue is the largest when the other cue is relatively ambiguous.

本文研究普通话声调感知中音高和曲拱的赋值和综合。在理论上重要的假定是：语音是作为连续的声学特征被接受的。实验的结果支持了这一估计，就是在声调感知中，一个音节元音上基频音高和基频曲拱具有相对的重要性。基频的音高和基频的曲拱是都影响感知辨认的，而且是同样起作用的。就像许多其它的对比感知，词调至少是基于两方面被辨认的，而且当另一方面相对来讲不明确时，一方面的影响就变得最大。

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