Back to Search
Start Over
Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones and Stops in Mandarin-Speaking Musicians and Nonmusicians.
- Source :
- SAGE Open; Jan-Mar2024, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-15, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
-
Abstract
- This study investigates the perception of Mandarin lexical tones and stops to examine the degree of overlap between music and language. Eighteen musicians and 21 nonmusicians participated in a typical categorical perception task. Results showed that musicians and nonmusicians had comparable degree of categorical perception of tones and stops. Compared to nonmusicians, musicians exhibited enhanced sensitivities to within-category lexical tone stimuli. However, this improved ability was not observed in the perception of stops. These findings imply that musical experience strengthens the acuity of subtle low-level acoustic variations between within-category lexical tone stimuli without interfering with the high-level phonological representations of lexical tones, and this facilitatory effect is selective and could not readily extend to stop consonants in native language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TONE (Phonetics)
CHINESE music
MUSICIANS
NATIVE language
PERCEPTION testing
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21582440
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- SAGE Open
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177097508
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241227703