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undergraduate thesis: Relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words
Title | Relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Wong, L. [黃樂兒]. (2014). Relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This study investigated the relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words. Nineteen normal-hearing native speakers of Mandarin were recruited and were asked to recognize isolated Mandarin words with different proportions of consonant or vowel segment preserved. The accuracy in recognizing the isolated Mandarin words, phonemes, and tones were scored. It is found that there is a greater contribution of vowels than consonants to isolated word recognition in Mandarin, which is different from previous outcomes in English. Possible reasons for this language difference in isolated word recognition were discussed. Contribution of consonant-vowel transitional boundary to isolated word recognition in Mandarin was also examined. It is found that the word recognition performance improves with increased amount of consonant-vowel boundary information presented. |
Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Word recognition Vowels - Mandarin dialects Consonants - Mandarin dialects |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238944 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5806552 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, Lok-yi | - |
dc.contributor.author | 黃樂兒 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-23T23:30:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-23T23:30:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Wong, L. [黃樂兒]. (2014). Relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238944 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words. Nineteen normal-hearing native speakers of Mandarin were recruited and were asked to recognize isolated Mandarin words with different proportions of consonant or vowel segment preserved. The accuracy in recognizing the isolated Mandarin words, phonemes, and tones were scored. It is found that there is a greater contribution of vowels than consonants to isolated word recognition in Mandarin, which is different from previous outcomes in English. Possible reasons for this language difference in isolated word recognition were discussed. Contribution of consonant-vowel transitional boundary to isolated word recognition in Mandarin was also examined. It is found that the word recognition performance improves with increased amount of consonant-vowel boundary information presented. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Word recognition | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Vowels - Mandarin dialects | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Consonants - Mandarin dialects | - |
dc.title | Relative contributions of vowels and consonants in recognizing isolated Mandarin words | - |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5806552 | - |
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 | 991020913439703414 | - |