CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF LEXICAL TONE

语境对词调感知的影响

Robert Allen Fox ； Ying-yong Qi

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics》 18卷2期 (1990/06) Pp. 261-284

摘要

This study examined the effect of a short precursor context on the perception of three Tone 1-Tone 2 continua. Eighteen listeners (9 Mandarin subjects and 9 English subjects) heard speech tokens which were either presented in an isolated-token condition, or in a paired-token condition and then rated them in terms of how similar their F0 contours were to either Tone 1 (high-level) or Tone 2 (mid-rising). In the paired-token condition, each test token was preceded either by a precursor with a high-level Tone 1 contour (ba1) or a mid-rising Tone 2 contour (ba2). For both Chinese and English listeners, there was only a borderline effect of context which was assimilatory in nature, which was consistent with the contention that the contextual effect can involve auditory perceptual mechanisms.

並列摘要

本文观察了语境对三个从阴平到阳平连续变化体的影响作用。十八位受试者（其中讲汉语和讲英语的各九位）参加了测试。测试分成两个部分：第一部分这些连续体以单字形式作测试；第二部分这些连续体以成对的形式作测试，前字是阴平或是阳平。受试者要求对连续变化体中每一个音节和阴平（平调）或阳平（升调）的相似程度作出判断。测试的结果表明，汉语和英语的受试者都显示出语境的影响作用。这说明语境影响作用和听觉的感知机制有关。