Abstract：Previous studies have demonstrated the important effect of vowels on tone perception. The vowels qualities are mainly determined by formants. Existing studies were surveyed to investigate the effect of vowel formant distribution on tone perception. A continuum of vowel sounds from low to high vowels were investigated with stimuli based on three different tone continua to evaluate the tone identification. The results show that higher vowel formant distributions are more likely to be perceived as relatively low tones in the tone continuum. This effect varies with the tones with stronger effects on second and third tones. The tone perception effect is mainly reflected in the category boundary instead of the category width.
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CAO Chong, XIE Yanlu, ZHANG Jinsong. Influence on tone perception from vowels with different formant distributions. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2018, 58(4): 352-356.
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