Jiang Wei, Li Yu, Shu Hua, Zhang Linjun, Zhang Yang
School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Apr;141(4):EL338. doi: 10.1121/1.4979565.
This study followed up Wang, Shu, Zhang, Liu, and Zhang [(2013). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 34(1), EL91-EL97] to investigate factors influencing older listeners' Mandarin speech recognition in quiet vs single-talker interference. Listening condition significantly interacted with F contours but not with semantic context, revealing that natural F contours provided benefit in the interference condition whereas semantic context contributed similarly to both conditions. Furthermore, the significant interaction between semantic context and F contours demonstrated the importance of semantic context when F was flattened. Together, findings from the two studies indicate that aging differentially affects tonal language speakers' dependence on F contours and semantic context for speech perception in suboptimal conditions.
本研究追踪了王、舒、张、刘和张（2013年，《美国声学学会杂志》34(1)，EL91 - EL97）的研究，以调查影响老年听众在安静环境与单说话者干扰环境下汉语语音识别的因素。听力条件与F调型有显著交互作用，但与语义语境无显著交互作用，这表明自然的F调型在干扰环境中具有优势，而语义语境在两种环境中的作用相似。此外，语义语境与F调型之间的显著交互作用表明，当F调型变平时，语义语境很重要。两项研究的结果共同表明，衰老对声调语言使用者在次优条件下语音感知时对F调型和语义语境的依赖有不同影响。
