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undergraduate thesis: Relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility
Title | Relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Wong, Y. [黃綺華]. (2013). Relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This study investigated the relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility using a noise replacement paradigm. In Experiment 1, 20 young normal-hearing native Mandarin listeners recognized Mandarin sentences with various amounts of segmental information preserved. Results showed that the vowel-only sentences (consonants replaced by noise) yielded a remarkable 3:1 intelligibility advantage over the consonant-only sentences (vowels replaced by noise). This ratio was larger than that found in English, suggesting that vowels contribute more to sentence intelligibility in Mandarin than in English. Intelligibility increased significantly when a little portion at vowel onsets was added to the consonant-only sentences. However, intelligibility of the vowel-only sentences was still maintained high when the same portion of vowel onsets and an equal amount of vowel offsets were replaced by noise, suggesting that vowel onsets contain redundant information to vowel centers for Mandarin sentence recognition. In Experiment 2, the same listeners discriminated tones of vowels with various durations preserved at either onsets or centers. Results were compared with the findings in Experiment 1, and suggested that lexical tones are relatively redundant for Mandarin sentence intelligibility in quiet. |
Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Consonants - Mandarin dialects Vowels - Mandarin dialects |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238544 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5806419 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, Yee-wa | - |
dc.contributor.author | 黃綺華 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-15T13:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-15T13:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Wong, Y. [黃綺華]. (2013). Relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238544 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility using a noise replacement paradigm. In Experiment 1, 20 young normal-hearing native Mandarin listeners recognized Mandarin sentences with various amounts of segmental information preserved. Results showed that the vowel-only sentences (consonants replaced by noise) yielded a remarkable 3:1 intelligibility advantage over the consonant-only sentences (vowels replaced by noise). This ratio was larger than that found in English, suggesting that vowels contribute more to sentence intelligibility in Mandarin than in English. Intelligibility increased significantly when a little portion at vowel onsets was added to the consonant-only sentences. However, intelligibility of the vowel-only sentences was still maintained high when the same portion of vowel onsets and an equal amount of vowel offsets were replaced by noise, suggesting that vowel onsets contain redundant information to vowel centers for Mandarin sentence recognition. In Experiment 2, the same listeners discriminated tones of vowels with various durations preserved at either onsets or centers. Results were compared with the findings in Experiment 1, and suggested that lexical tones are relatively redundant for Mandarin sentence intelligibility in quiet. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Consonants - Mandarin dialects | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Vowels - Mandarin dialects | - |
dc.title | Relative contributions of consonants and vowels to Mandarin sentence intelligibility | - |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5806419 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Bachelor | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991020910799703414 | - |