Open AccessVisual–Auditory Integration and High-Variability Speech Can Facilitate Mandarin Chinese Tone Identification
Author(s) -
Yanjun Wei,
Lin Jia,
Fei Gao,
Jianqin Wang
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of speech, language, and hearing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-9102
pISSN - 1092-4388
DOI - 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00691
Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , psychology , tone (literature) , audiology , priming (agriculture) , visual perception , auditory perception , speech recognition , perception , computer science , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , botany , germination , neuroscience , biology
Previous studies have demonstrated that tone identification can be facilitated when auditory tones are integrated with visual information that depicts the pitch contours of the auditory tones (hereafter, visual effect). This study investigates this visual effect in combined visual-auditory integration with high- and low-variability speech and examines whether one's prior tonal-language learning experience shapes the strength of this visual effect.