Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception

	Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception
	Gang Peng; Diana Deutsch; Trevor Henthorn; Danjie Su; William S-Y. Wang
刊名	Journal of Chinese Linguistics/中国语言学报
	2013
英文摘要	Following publication of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, evidence has accumulated for the influence of language experience on perception.There are thousands of languages in the world which make use of pitch patterns to construct words much as vowels and consonants are used,among which Mandarin (a.k.a. Putonghua) is a typical tone language.This study examines the effect of language experience (tone language experience vs. nontone language experience) on non-linguistic pitch perception. First, we show a significantly higher prevalence of absolute pitch among native tone-language-speaking music students than among nontone-language-speaking music students. Moreover, we show that language experience shapes the perception of tone sweeps, extending the influence of language prototypes from the linguistic domain to the nonlinguistic domain. Taken together, these results demonstrate that language experience affects auditory perception, and so provide evidence for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the auditory modality.
收录类别	其他
原文出处	http://clhc.cuhk.edu.hk/People/Wang/part-A/2013PGetalJCL.pdf
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.siat.ac.cn:8080/handle/172644/4388]
专题	深圳先进技术研究院_集成所
作者单位	Journal of Chinese Linguistics/中国语言学报
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gang Peng,Diana Deutsch,Trevor Henthorn,et al. Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception[J]. Journal of Chinese Linguistics/中国语言学报,2013.
APA	Gang Peng,Diana Deutsch,Trevor Henthorn,Danjie Su,&William S-Y. Wang.(2013).Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception.Journal of Chinese Linguistics/中国语言学报.
MLA	Gang Peng,et al."Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception".Journal of Chinese Linguistics/中国语言学报 (2013).