Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2024 Feb 1;155(2):1451-1468. doi: 10.1121/10.0024890.
Theoretical accounts posit a close link between speech perception and production, but empirical findings on this relationship are mixed. To explain this apparent contradiction, a proposed view is that a perception-production relationship should be established through the use of critical perceptual cues. This study examines this view by using Mandarin tones as a test case because the perceptual cues for Mandarin tones consist of perceptually critical pitch direction and noncritical pitch height cues. The defining features of critical and noncritical perceptual cues and the perception-production relationship of each cue for each tone were investigated. The perceptual stimuli in the perception experiment were created by varying one critical and one noncritical perceptual cue orthogonally. The cues for tones produced by the same group of native Mandarin participants were measured. This study found that the critical status of perceptual cues primarily influenced within-category and between-category perception for nearly all tones. Using cross-domain bidirectional statistical modelling, a perception-production link was found for the critical perceptual cue only. A stronger link was obtained when within-category and between-category perception data were included in the models as compared to using between-category perception data alone, suggesting a phonetically and phonologically driven perception-production relationship.
理论观点认为言语感知和产生之间存在密切联系，但关于这种关系的实证发现却存在分歧。为了解释这种明显的矛盾，有人提出，感知-产生关系应该通过使用关键感知线索来建立。本研究以普通话声调为例检验了这一观点，因为普通话声调的感知线索包括感知关键的音高方向和非关键的音高高度线索。研究考察了每种声调的关键和非关键感知线索的定义特征以及每种线索的感知-产生关系。感知实验中的感知刺激是通过正交变化一个关键和一个非关键感知线索来产生的。测量了由同一组母语为普通话的参与者产生的声调的线索。本研究发现，对于几乎所有的声调来说，感知线索的关键地位主要影响了类别内和类别间的感知。通过使用跨域双向统计建模，仅对关键感知线索发现了感知-产生的联系。与仅使用类别间感知数据相比，将类别内和类别间感知数据纳入模型时，得到的联系更强，这表明存在一种基于语音和音系的感知-产生关系。
