Relative Contribution of Auditory and Visual Information to Mandarin Chinese Tone Identification by Native and Tone-naïve Listeners

• Published in: Language and speech Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 856 - 876
• Main Authors: Han, Yueqiao, Goudbeek, Martijn, Mos, Maria, Swerts, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Auditory perception; Chinese languages; Listening Comprehension; Mandarin; McGurk effect; Native Speakers; Speech; Speech perception; Suprasegmentals; Syllables; Tone; Visual perception; native and tone-naïve participants; McGurk effect; Mandarin Chinese tone identification; Auditory-visual perception; congruent and incongruent

Speech perception is a multisensory process: what we hear can be affected by what we see. For instance, the McGurk effect occurs when auditory speech is presented in synchrony with discrepant visual information. A large number of studies have targeted the McGurk effect at the segmental level of spee...