Adults' Perception of Speech (Tone Perception)
  • Description

    This data set contains DmDx data files in .azk and .zil formats, which can be viewed by Notepad or other text editor program. The data are saved in Excel .xlsx format. The size for each .zil file is approximately 100 KB and .azk file is approximately 200 KB. Each Excel .xlsx file size is about 200 - 400 KB. The data were obtained through two perception experiments - Discrimination of Tones and Identification of Tones. Thai tones were used as testing stimuli in both experiments. Five groups of participants (Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese, Australian English and Swedish native speakers) participated in this study. In the Discrimination experiment participants had to discriminate two Thai tones i.e., say whether they are the same or different tones. In the Identification experiment Thai participants had to identify the Thai tones they heard, Mandarin and Cantonese participants had to map the Thai tones they heard with their native tones, and Australian English and Swedish participants had to map the Thai tones they heard with either 1) pitch contour symbols or 2) their intonations.


    • Data publication title Adults' Perception of Speech (Tone Perception)
    • Description

      This data set contains DmDx data files in .azk and .zil formats, which can be viewed by Notepad or other text editor program. The data are saved in Excel .xlsx format. The size for each .zil file is approximately 100 KB and .azk file is approximately 200 KB. Each Excel .xlsx file size is about 200 - 400 KB. The data were obtained through two perception experiments - Discrimination of Tones and Identification of Tones. Thai tones were used as testing stimuli in both experiments. Five groups of participants (Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese, Australian English and Swedish native speakers) participated in this study. In the Discrimination experiment participants had to discriminate two Thai tones i.e., say whether they are the same or different tones. In the Identification experiment Thai participants had to identify the Thai tones they heard, Mandarin and Cantonese participants had to map the Thai tones they heard with their native tones, and Australian English and Swedish participants had to map the Thai tones they heard with either 1) pitch contour symbols or 2) their intonations.


    • Data type dataset
    • Keywords
      • Speech perception
      • Speech
      • Tone (Phonetics)
      • Language acquisition
      • The MARCS Institute
    • Funding source
      • Australian Research Council
    • Grant number(s)
      • - DP0988201
    • FoR codes
      SEO codes
      Temporal (time) coverage
    • Start date 2010/03/01
    • End date 2011/05/01
    • Time period
       
      Spatial (location,mapping) coverage
    • Locations
      Data Locations

      Type Location Notes
      The Data Manager is: Denis Burnham
      Access conditions Open
      The data will be licensed under
    • Other license
    • Statement of rights in data Copyright Western Sydney University
      Citation Burnham, Denis : Adults' Perception of Speech (Tone Perception). Western Sydney University.