Coda Discrimination is Governed by Acoustic and Phonological Constraints: A Case Study of the Generalized Linear Model

尾音的指認受制於聲學語音跟音韻限制

10.6503/THJCS.2010.40(1).03

朱曼妮(Man-Ni Chu)；林惠文(Hui-Wen Lin)

汕頭 ； 尾音 ； 正確率 ； 第二共振峰 ； Shantou ； terminal plosives ； accuracy rate ； second formant transitions

清華學報

40卷1期（2010 / 03 / 01）

47 - 66

英文

A series of studies has shown that consonants can be categorized by their acoustic character. A gating experiment was designed to recognize the factors used to identify terminal plosives correctly. Nine native residents of Shantou, in China's Guangdong Province, were recruited as subjects. The dialect spoken in Shantou does not allow * /ap/ and * /at/. Participants were asked to identify /taC/ and /kaC/ under conditions where C is one of the four choices /p, t, k, (The Symbol is abbreviated)/. The overall rate of accuracy, from highest to lowest, was /p/＞ /k/, / (The Symbol is abbreviated)/＞ /t/. In general, the similarities in the formant transitions of /t,k, (The Symbol is abbreviated) /, also observed by Tartter et al. (1983), confused subjects, which resulted in a higher recognition rate for the labial stop. Results suggested that the subjects' language background helped discriminate the remaining sounds; for example, /k, (The Symbol is abbreviated)/ were correctly identified more often than /t/.

A series of studies has shown that consonants can be categorized by their acoustic character. A gating experiment was designed to recognize the factors used to identify terminal plosives correctly. Nine native residents of Shantou, in China's Guangdong Province, were recruited as subjects. The dialect spoken in Shantou does not allow * /ap/ and * /at/. Participants were asked to identify /taC/ and /kaC/ under conditions where C is one of the four choices /p, t, k, (The Symbol is abbreviated)/. The overall rate of accuracy, from highest to lowest, was /p/＞ /k/, / (The Symbol is abbreviated)/＞ /t/. In general, the similarities in the formant transitions of /t,k, (The Symbol is abbreviated) /, also observed by Tartter et al. (1983), confused subjects, which resulted in a higher recognition rate for the labial stop. Results suggested that the subjects' language background helped discriminate the remaining sounds; for example, /k, (The Symbol is abbreviated)/ were correctly identified more often than /t/.