dc.contributor.author | Gómez, David M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mok, Peggy | |
dc.contributor.author | Ordin, Mikhail | |
dc.contributor.author | Mehler, Jacques | |
dc.contributor.author | Nespor, Marina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-12T13:59:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-12T13:59:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Statistical Speech Segmentation in Tone Languages: The Role of Lexical Tones David M. Gómez, Peggy Mok, Mikhail Ordin, Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor Language and Speech Vol 61, Issue 1, pp. 84 - 96 First Published May 9, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830917706529 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0023-8309 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/25642 | |
dc.description | First Published May 9, 2017 | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | Research has demonstrated distinct roles for consonants and vowels in speech processing. For
example, consonants have been shown to support lexical processes, such as the segmentation
of speech based on transitional probabilities (TPs), more effectively than vowels. Theory and
data so far, however, have considered only non-tone languages, that is to say, languages that
lack contrastive lexical tones. In the present work, we provide a first investigation of the role of
consonants and vowels in statistical speech segmentation by native speakers of Cantonese, as well
as assessing how tones modulate the processing of vowels. Results show that Cantonese speakers
are unable to use statistical cues carried by consonants for segmentation, but they can use cues
carried by vowels. This difference becomes more evident when considering tone-bearing vowels.
Additional data from speakers of Russian and Mandarin suggest that the ability of Cantonese
speakers to segment streams with statistical cues carried by tone-bearing vowels extends to
other tone languages, but is much reduced in speakers of non-tone languages. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research leading to these results has received funding from: the European Research Council under the
European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC [grant agreement 269502,
PASCAL]; the Chilean CONICYT program PIA/BASAL [grant FB0003]; the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation; and the Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Language and Speech | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/SFP7/ERC-269502 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | Lexical tone | es_ES |
dc.subject | tone language | es_ES |
dc.subject | transitional probability | es_ES |
dc.subject | speech segmentation | es_ES |
dc.subject | consonants and vowels | es_ES |
dc.title | Statistical Speech Segmentation in Tone Languages: The Role of Lexical Tones | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s) 2017 | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journals-permissions | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0023830917706529 | |