Vietnamese tone identification.

Syllabic Tone Perception in Vietnamese

This paper discusses tone perception in Vietnamese under audio only and audio plus video conditions. The lower part of a male speaker's face was recorded on digital video as he uttered 22 sets of syllabic tokens covering the six different tones of Vietnamese. In a perception study the audio signal alone, as well as audio plus video conditions were presented to native Vietnamese speakers who wer...

Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song

We examine the degree of correspondence between musical and linguistic tone sequences in a corpus of 20 Vietnamese popular songs. Our data suggest that text-setting constraints in Vietnamese, as in some other Asian tone languages, are based primarily on the direction of the pitch transition from one syllable/note to the next. Borrowing some musical terminology, we may say that ‘similar motion’ ...

Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception.

This study investigated the perceptual dimensions of tone in Vietnamese and the effect of dialect experience on listener's prelinguistic perception of tone. While Northern Vietnamese tones are cued by a combination of pitch and voice quality, Southern Vietnamese tones are purely pitch based. 30 listeners from two Vietnamese dialects (10 Northern, 20 Southern) participated in a speeded AX discri...

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Stress, tone and word prosody in Vietnamese compounds

Vietnamese compounds and phrasal constructions are investigated for phonetic correlates of lexical stress. Two series of experiments on the acoustic and perceptual characteristics of Vietnamese compound words and their phrasal counterparts are reported here and in a companion paper (Nguyen & Ingram, this volume), involving paradigmatic (same position within a syntactic frame) and syntagmatic co...