Identification of Mandarin tones by English-speaking musicians and nonmusicians

CY Lee, TH Hung - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
This study examined Mandarin tone identification by 36 English-speaking musicians and 36
nonmusicians and musical note identification by the musicians. In the Mandarin task …

Relationship between tone perception and production in prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants

N Zhou, J Huang, X Chen, L Xu - Otology & Neurotology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background Poor representation of pitch information in CI devices hinders pitch perception
and affects perception of lexical tones in cochlear implant users who speak tonal languages …

Perception of musical pitch and lexical tones by Mandarin-speaking musicians

CY Lee, YF Lee - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The relationship between music and language processing was explored in two perception
experiments on the identification of musical notes and Mandarin tones. In the music task …

Encoding lexical tones in jTRACE: A simulation of monosyllabic spoken word recognition in Mandarin Chinese

L Shuai, JG Malins - Behavior Research Methods, 2017 - Springer
Despite its prevalence as one of the most highly influential models of spoken word
recognition, the TRACE model has yet to be extended to consider tonal languages such as …

Tone perception and production in pediatric cochlear implants users

L Xu, X Chen, H Lu, N Zhou, S Wang, Q Liu… - Acta oto …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Conclusions: In prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants, tone perception and
production performance are highly correlated. This result is consistent with the hypothesis …

Tonal languages and cochlear implants

L Xu, N Zhou - Auditory prostheses: New horizons, 2011 - Springer
As a major part of world languages, tonal languages are spoken in every continent except
for Australia. In a tonal language, voice pitch variation (ie, tone) at the monosyllabic level is a …

[PDF][PDF] Tone Classification in Mandarin Chinese Using Convolutional Neural Networks.

C Chen, RC Bunescu, L Xu, C Liu - Interspeech, 2016 - isca-archive.org
In tone languages, different tone patterns of the same syllable may convey different
meanings. Tone perception is important for sentence recognition in noise conditions …

Relative contributions of temporal envelope and fine structure cues to lexical tone recognition in hearing-impaired listeners

S Wang, L Xu, R Mannell - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2011 - Springer
It has been reported that normal-hearing Chinese speakers base their lexical tone
recognition on fine structure regardless of temporal envelope cues. However, a few …

Development and evaluation of methods for assessing tone production skills in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants

N Zhou, L Xu - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of the study was (1) to develop methods for evaluating tone production of children
with cochlear implants (CIs) who speak Mandarin Chinese and (2) to evaluate the efficacy of …

Identification of multi-speaker Mandarin tones in noise by native and non-native listeners

CY Lee, L Tao, ZS Bond - Speech Communication, 2010 - Elsevier
The similarities and contrasts between native and non-native identification of multi-speaker
Mandarin tones in quiet and in noise were explored in a perception experiment. Mandarin …