Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions.

We investigated categorical perception of rising and falling pitch contours by tonal and non-tonal listeners. Specifically, we determined minimum durations needed to perceive both contours and compared to those of production, how stimuli duration affects their perception, whether there is an intrins...

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Main Authors: Si Chen, Yiqing Zhu, Ratree Wayland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5495489?pdf=render