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Article: Phonetically Grounded Structural Bias in Learning Tonal Alternations
Title | Phonetically Grounded Structural Bias in Learning Tonal Alternations |
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Keywords | Learning bias Simplicity Phonetic naturalness Artificial grammar learning Tone alternation |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology |
Citation | Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, v. 12, article no. 705766 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study investigates the hypothesis that tone alternation directionality becomes a basis of structural bias for tone alternation learning, where “structural bias” refers to a tendency to prefer uni-directional tone deletions to bi-directional ones. Two experiments were conducted. In the first, Mandarin speakers learned three artificial languages, with bi-directional tone deletions, uni-directional, left-dominant deletions, and uni-directional, right-dominant deletions, respectively. The results showed a learning bias toward uni-directional, right-dominant patterns. As Mandarin tone sandhi is right-dominant while Cantonese tone change is lexically restricted and does not have directionality asymmetry, a follow-up experiment trained Cantonese speakers either on left- or right-dominant deletions to see whether the right-dominant preference was due to L1 transfer from Mandarin. The results of the experiment also showed a learning bias toward right-dominant patterns. We argue that structural simplicity affects tone deletion learning but the simplicity should be grounded on phonetics factors, such as syllables’ contour-tone bearing ability. The experimental results are consistent with the findings of a survey on other types of tone alternation’s directionality, i.e., tone sandhi across 17 Chinese varieties. This suggests that the directionality asymmetry found across different tone alternations reflects a phonetically grounded structural learning bias. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/301537 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.800 |
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dc.contributor.author | Huang, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Do, Y | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-09T03:40:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-09T03:40:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, v. 12, article no. 705766 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/301537 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigates the hypothesis that tone alternation directionality becomes a basis of structural bias for tone alternation learning, where “structural bias” refers to a tendency to prefer uni-directional tone deletions to bi-directional ones. Two experiments were conducted. In the first, Mandarin speakers learned three artificial languages, with bi-directional tone deletions, uni-directional, left-dominant deletions, and uni-directional, right-dominant deletions, respectively. The results showed a learning bias toward uni-directional, right-dominant patterns. As Mandarin tone sandhi is right-dominant while Cantonese tone change is lexically restricted and does not have directionality asymmetry, a follow-up experiment trained Cantonese speakers either on left- or right-dominant deletions to see whether the right-dominant preference was due to L1 transfer from Mandarin. The results of the experiment also showed a learning bias toward right-dominant patterns. We argue that structural simplicity affects tone deletion learning but the simplicity should be grounded on phonetics factors, such as syllables’ contour-tone bearing ability. The experimental results are consistent with the findings of a survey on other types of tone alternation’s directionality, i.e., tone sandhi across 17 Chinese varieties. This suggests that the directionality asymmetry found across different tone alternations reflects a phonetically grounded structural learning bias. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Psychology | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Learning bias | - |
dc.subject | Simplicity | - |
dc.subject | Phonetic naturalness | - |
dc.subject | Artificial grammar learning | - |
dc.subject | Tone alternation | - |
dc.title | Phonetically Grounded Structural Bias in Learning Tonal Alternations | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Do, Y: youngah@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Do, Y=rp02160 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705766 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 34381405 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC8350328 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85112152934 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 323859 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 705766 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 705766 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000682974600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Switzerland | - |