The Processing of Mandarin Chinese Tonal Alternations in Contexts: An Eye-Tracking Study
The Processing of Mandarin Chinese Tonal Alternations in Contexts: An Eye-Tracking Study
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10.1109/icassp40776.2020.9053830
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2020-05
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Jung-Yueh Tu;Yu-Fu Chien
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Jung-Yueh Tu;Yu-Fu Chien
本研究旨在探讨普通话双音节词声调变化的知觉。在普通话中，当一个低降调3后面跟着另一个声调3时，它就变成了一个高升调2，这就是所谓的第三连读变调。虽然先前的研究表明，在F0之间的一个高的连读变调3（T3）和声调2的统计差异，母语的普通话听众未能正确分类这两个音在知觉任务（彭，2000）。本研究利用眼动追踪中的视觉世界范式，进一步考察声调中的声学细节是否有助于汉语词汇通达。结果表明，普通话受试者在词汇通达过程中倾向于先将连读变调-T3加工为连读变调-T3，将声调2加工为两个声调，然后再通过连读变调语境发现两个声调之间的声学差异，最后激活目标词。眼动追踪的结果表明，微妙的声学细节的F0可能有助于自动的方式在声调语言的词汇访问。
This study investigated the perception of Mandarin tonal alternations in disyllabic words. In Mandarin, a low-dipping Tone3 is converted to a high-rising Tone2 when followed by another Tone3, known as third tone sandhi. Although previous studies showed statistically differences in F0 between a high-rising Sandhi-Tone3 (T3) and a Tone2, native Mandarin listeners failed to correctly categorize these two tones in perception tasks (Peng, 2000). The current study utilized the visual-world paradigm in eye-tracking to further examine whether acoustic details in lexical tone aid lexical access in Mandarin. Results showed that Mandarin listeners tend to first process Sandhi-T3 as Sandhi-T3 and Tone2 as both tones, then later detect the acoustic differences between the two tones revealed by the sandhi context, and finally activate the target word during lexical access. The eye-tracking results suggest that subtle acoustic details of F0 may facilitate lexical access in automatic fashion in a tone language.