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undergraduate thesis: Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) study of Cantonese tone merging : the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing
Title | Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) study of Cantonese tone merging : the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Leung, Y. E. [梁婉瑩]. (2016). Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) study of Cantonese tone merging : the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | Although the speech processing mechanism is so complex that it is still being actively researched, increasing evidence has suggested that cognitive abilities play a role in this complex process. The present study took advantage offered by tone merging phenomenon to study the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing among native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong. Three groups of participants were recruited, including participants of good perception of all tones but with (i) good production of all tone pairs (control), (ii) poor production of T2/T5 pairs (both groups from Ou et al. (2015), and (iii) poor production of T3/T6 pairs (from current study). Tone production and perception (both behavioral and ERP experiment) tasks and a battery of published cognitive tests were conducted to examine the participants’ speech processing and cognitive abilities. Results indicated that tone discrimination efficiency and production accuracy were correlated to one’s visual and auditory attentional switching. Our findings have complemented the studies of Law et al. (2013) and Ou et al. (2015). We have demonstrated that impact of attention can be extended to other types of mergers, which are T3/T6 in this case, and reinforced the role of amplitude rise time in discriminating the Cantonese rising tones.
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Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Cognition Speech |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272581 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Leung, Yuen-ying, Elva | - |
dc.contributor.author | 梁婉瑩 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-01T13:51:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-01T13:51:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Leung, Y. E. [梁婉瑩]. (2016). Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) study of Cantonese tone merging : the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272581 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Although the speech processing mechanism is so complex that it is still being actively researched, increasing evidence has suggested that cognitive abilities play a role in this complex process. The present study took advantage offered by tone merging phenomenon to study the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing among native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong. Three groups of participants were recruited, including participants of good perception of all tones but with (i) good production of all tone pairs (control), (ii) poor production of T2/T5 pairs (both groups from Ou et al. (2015), and (iii) poor production of T3/T6 pairs (from current study). Tone production and perception (both behavioral and ERP experiment) tasks and a battery of published cognitive tests were conducted to examine the participants’ speech processing and cognitive abilities. Results indicated that tone discrimination efficiency and production accuracy were correlated to one’s visual and auditory attentional switching. Our findings have complemented the studies of Law et al. (2013) and Ou et al. (2015). We have demonstrated that impact of attention can be extended to other types of mergers, which are T3/T6 in this case, and reinforced the role of amplitude rise time in discriminating the Cantonese rising tones. | - |
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 | Cognition | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Speech | - |
dc.title | Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) study of Cantonese tone merging : the role of cognitive abilities in speech processing | - |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | - |
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.date.hkucongregation | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044112780403414 | - |