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Statistical speech segmentation in tone languages: the role of lexical tones

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Gómez, David M.
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Statistical speech segmentation in tone languages: the role of lexical tones
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  • Gómez, David M.;
  • Mok, Peggy;
  • Ordin, Mikhail;
  • Mehler, Jacques;
  • Nespor, Marina;
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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.
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European Research Council under the European Union 269502 Chilean CONICYT program PIA/BASAL FB0003 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque)
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/150210
DOI: 10.1177/0023830917706529
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Language and Speech, 61 (1): 84-96
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