Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Jul;130(1):526-35. doi: 10.1121/1.3596473.
This study explored the relationship between music and speech by examining absolute pitch and lexical tone perception. Taiwanese-speaking musicians were asked to identify musical tones without a reference pitch and multispeaker Taiwanese level tones without acoustic cues typically present for speaker normalization. The results showed that a high percentage of the participants (65% with an exact match required and 81% with one-semitone errors allowed) possessed absolute pitch, as measured by the musical tone identification task. A negative correlation was found between occurrence of absolute pitch and age of onset of musical training, suggesting that the acquisition of absolute pitch resembles the acquisition of speech. The participants were able to identify multispeaker Taiwanese level tones with above-chance accuracy, even though the acoustic cues typically present for speaker normalization were not available in the stimuli. No correlations were found between the performance in musical tone identification and the performance in Taiwanese tone identification. Potential reasons for the lack of association between the two tasks are discussed.
本研究通过考察绝对音高和声调感知，探讨了音乐和语言的关系。要求讲闽南话的音乐家在没有基准音高的情况下识别音乐音，以及在没有通常用于说话者归一化的声学提示的情况下识别多说话者的台湾声调。结果表明，高比例的参与者（需要精确匹配的参与者中有 65%，允许有一个半音误差的参与者中有 81%）具有绝对音高，这是通过音乐音识别任务测量的。绝对音高的出现与音乐训练开始年龄呈负相关，这表明绝对音高的获得类似于语言的获得。尽管刺激中没有通常用于说话者归一化的声学提示，但参与者仍然能够以高于机会的准确率识别多说话者的台湾声调。在音乐音识别和台湾声调识别中的表现之间未发现相关性。讨论了两个任务之间缺乏关联的潜在原因。
