School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2010 Jan;127(1):481-90. doi: 10.1121/1.3266683.
The relationship between music and language processing was explored in two perception experiments on the identification of musical notes and Mandarin tones. In the music task, Mandarin-speaking musicians were asked to identify musical notes of three timbres without a reference pitch. 72% of the musicians met the criterion for absolute pitch when an exact match was required, and 82% met the criterion when one-semitone errors were allowed. Accuracy of identification was negatively correlated with age of onset of musical training, and piano notes were identified more accurately than viola and pure tone stimuli. In the Mandarin task, the musicians were able to identify, beyond chance, brief Mandarin tone stimuli that were devoid of dynamic F0 information and cues commonly considered necessary for speaker normalization. Although F0 height detection was involved in both musical note and Mandarin tone identification, performances in the two tasks were not correlated. The putative link between absolute pitch and tone language experience was discussed.
在关于识别音符和普通话声调的两项感知实验中，探究了音乐与语言处理之间的关系。在音乐任务中，要求会说普通话的音乐家在没有基准音高的情况下识别三种音高的音符。当需要精确匹配时，有 72%的音乐家达到了绝对音高的标准，当允许一个半音的误差时，有 82%的音乐家达到了标准。识别的准确性与音乐训练开始的年龄呈负相关，钢琴音符的识别比中提琴和纯音刺激更准确。在普通话任务中，音乐家能够识别出简短的普通话声调刺激，这些刺激缺乏动态 F0 信息和通常被认为是说话人归一化所必需的线索，但识别的准确率超出了偶然水平。虽然 F0 高度检测涉及音乐音符和普通话声调的识别，但这两项任务的表现没有相关性。讨论了绝对音高与声调语言经验之间的潜在联系。
