退化语音的感知恢复:语言结构的影响
Mako Ishida1, Takayuki Arai2, Makio Kashino3
1Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Foreign Language and Liberal Arts, Keio University, 4 Chome-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223-8521, Japan. mako.ishida@keio.jp.
Attention, perception & psychophysics
|August 5, 2025
概括
日本语为母语的说者.
科学领域:
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
- 听觉感知是一种听觉感知.
- 语音处理 语音处理
背景情况:
- 尽管有声时间扭曲,语音可理解性仍然很高.
- 之前对英语 (音节导向) 的研究表明,局部时间逆转和调制过语音的可理解性下降模式类似.
- 英语和日语之间的语言差异 (以道德为导向) 需要对语音感知进行研究.
研究的目的:
- 调查日语母语使用者如何理解暂时扭曲的日语句子.
- 将日语局部时间逆转和调制过语音的可理解性模式与以前的英语研究结果进行比较.
- 探索基本语言单元 (摩拉与音节) 对语音感知的影响.
主要方法:
- 实验1:日语句子接受了局部时间逆转的演讲,分段逆转间隔有所变化 (10-110 ms).
- 实验2:用不同低通切断频率 (1-32 Hz) 进行调制选语音的日本句子.
- 参与者:日语为母语的讲者在两种扭曲条件下评估句子的可理解性.
主要成果:
- 在本地时间逆转和调制过条件下,日语的语音可理解性随着时间扭曲的增加而下降.
- 更长的反向段长度和更低的调制切断频率导致了更大的可理解性下降.
- 在日语中,可理解性降低的模式与在英语中观察到的不同.
结论:
- 暂时扭曲的语言的感知恢复可能受到语言的基本语言单元的影响.
- 日本语的基于摩拉的结构可能会导致与基于音节的英语相比,不同的语音处理策略.
- 需要进一步的研究才能充分理解听觉语音感知中的跨语言差异.
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