Do you say what you hear? Perception-production link of a phoneme contrast in Singapore Mandarin

Existing studies have suggested that there may be a link between perception and production of speech sounds. In this paper we examine this link using data collected on Singapore English-Mandarin bilingual adults. We used a 2AFC task to measure perception of the Singapore Mandarin [tsʰuə́n]-[ʈʂʰuə́n]...

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Main Authors: Goh, Hannah Letitia, Styles, Suzy J.
Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168088
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Existing studies have suggested that there may be a link between perception and production of speech sounds. In this paper we examine this link using data collected on Singapore English-Mandarin bilingual adults. We used a 2AFC task to measure perception of the Singapore Mandarin [tsʰuə́n]-[ʈʂʰuə́n] alveolar-retroflex contrast, and measured production using centre of gravity (CoG) measurements on speech recordings of alveolar and retroflex words. We found that a perception-production link may exist in our participants, with participants who exhibit less retroflexion in speech showing less sensitivity to retroflexion in ambiguous speech sounds.