The Tritone Paradox among Chinese Children Aged
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The tritone paradox is produced by a basic pattern that consists of an ordered pair of Shepard tones that are related by a half-octave (i.e., a tritone). When listeners judge whether such tone pairs ascend or descend in pitch, their judgments show systematic relationships to the positions of the tones along the pitch-class circle: Tones in one region of the circle are heard as higher and tones in the opposite region are heard as lower. However, listeners disagree as to which tones are heard as higher and which as lower; further, their perceptions vary with their languages or dialects, which in turn involve differing pitch ranges for speech. Studies on the tritone paradox have so far studied only non-tone language speakers, and teenage children have not so far been tested. This study explored perception of the tritone paradox in Chinese children aged 12 and 13 who were living in Beijing. All subjects spoke Mandarin, but the dialects that were spoken by their family members varied. Overall, a very strong tritone paradox was obtained. Pitch classes B and C tended to be judged as higher than the other pitch classes, with the plot of peak pitch classes falling off on either side of these. This finding probably reflects the most frequent pitch ranges of speech in Northern Chinese Mandarin dialects.
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Speech Patterns Heard Early in Life Influence Later Perception of the Tritone Paradox
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تاریخ انتشار 2014