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Pitch planning in English and Taiwanese Mandarin: Evidence from startle-elicited responses

Author(s) -

Chenhao Chiu,

Bryan Gick

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4896405

Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , stimulus (psychology) , pitch perception , acoustics , speech recognition , audiology , absolute pitch , psychology , computer science , cognitive psychology , physics , linguistics , perception , medicine , neuroscience , philosophy

Startling auditory stimulus (SAS) can trigger rapid release of pre-planned movement sequences and can effect a physiological perturbation of pitch level. An SAS-based paradigm was used to investigate planning of pitch profiles in English and Taiwanese Mandarin. Results show that startle-elicited pitch level is elevated, whereas pitch contours are preserved. These results support the view that pitch contours are pre-specified in speech plans, while absolute pitch level is not.

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