A Comparative Study on Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Consonants in Different Acoustic Transmission Conditions
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چکیده
In order to compare the effects of different acoustic transmission conditions on Mandarin consonants perception, two subjective speech intelligibility tests were separately carried out in reverberant and noisy condition. The results showed that the affricates and fricatives were the most intelligible in reverberation. Friction might be the most important cue for consonant perception in reverberation. Those consonants articulated frictionally were more intelligible than others in low frequency noise, while the voiced were more intelligible in high frequency noise. The primate cues for consonant perception in noise were related to the frequency characteristic of noise. For both stops and affricates, the unaspirated sounds were more intelligible than the aspirated sounds in both reverberant and noisy conditions.
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