Perception of glottalization in varying pitch contexts in Mandarin Chinese

• Although glottalization has often been associated with lowpitch, evidence from a number of sources supports theassertion that this association is not obligatory, and is likely tobe language-specific. Following a previous study testingperception of glottalization by German, English, and Swedishlisteners, the current research investigates the influence ofpitch context on the perception of glottalization by nativespeakers of a tone language, Mandarin Chinese. Listenersheard AXB sets in which they were asked to match glottalizedstimuli with pitch contours. We find that Mandarin listenerstend not to be influenced by the pitch context when judgingthe pitch of glottalized stretches of speech. These data lendsupport to the idea that the perception of glottalization variesin relation to language-specific prosodic structure.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

prosody

voice quality

perception

glottalization

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