Speech to Song Illusion: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

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syllable wo he san bei ka feicentralpitch(Hz) 85 85 84 84 88 88tone 3 1 1 1 1 1Table 4 Irregular pitch-tone interval mappingin the sample sentenceThe great flexibility of tone intervals inaccepted normal speech indicates that theconstraint of an interval relation that is similar tothe musical scalar relation is little in thegeneration of speech to song illusion. We may aswell speculate that given the sufficient pitchtarget stability, the occurrence of speech to songillusion depends less on the tone intervalstructure. Moreover, due to the listener’s abilityto adjust perceived pitch in different tuningsystems to the ones we’re familiar with (such asinterpreting as well-tempered pentatonic scalewhen hearing a Sundanese Salandro scale by theWestern listeners), it is likely that the intervalstructure does not play a significant role in theillusion in the case of MC. Future perceptualexperiments is called for in determining the roleof interval structure as well as its complexmapping onto the tone relations.V DiscussionIn conclusion, the current study confirms theTonal Hypothesis by Falk and Rethecke (2010),and the mechanisms in generating speech to songillusion in Mandarin Chinese. In the meantime,the current study does not negate the conclusionby Deutsch. First of all, we do have to take intoaccount part of the physical properties as a preconditionin generating the speech to songillusion; nonetheless, we do acknowledge thefact that the same input of the same physicalreality of the signal can generate different out putwhen repeated through the human perceptualsystem.There exists a long-standing notion of speechto song continuum by ethnomusicologistsanthropologists, who found in many culturesaround the world the existence of the vocalperforming genres that lie between speech andsong (or in some cases known as heightenedspeech). In the meantime, as illustrated in thispaper, what happens to speech perception whenrepeated signal is presented to human listenersdid not particularly attract scholar attentions untilrecently. Therefore the research into speech tosong illusion may offer us a new passage way tonavigate the human audio-perceptual system andbrain modularity from speech to song.VI References[1] Deutsch, D., 1995. Musical Illusions andParadoxes. CD: Philomel Records.[2] Deutsch, D., Lapidis, R., Henthorn, T., 2008. Thespeech-to-song-illusion. J. Acoust. Soc. America,s.124, 2471.[3] Falk, F., Rathcke, T. 2010. “On the Speech-To-Song Illusion: Evidence from German”. SpeechProsody 5 th International Conference, Chicago, IL.[4] Mertens, P. 2009. The Prosogram v.2.7(manual& tutorial).http://bach.arts.kuleuven.be/pmertens/prosogram[5] Patel, A., 2008. Music, language and the brain.Oxford: University Press.[6] Peretz, I., in press. Music, language andmodularity in action. In Rebuschat, P., Rohrmeier,M., Hawkins, J. and Cross, I. [Eds], Language andMusic as cognitive systems. Oxford: University Press.[7] Peretz, I., Champod, S. and Hyde, K. 2003.Varieties of Musical Disorders: The Montreal Batteryof Evaluation of Amusia. Annals of the New YorkAcademy of Sciences 999, 58-75.Peretz, I. Coltheart, M., 2003. Modularity of musicprocessing. Nature neuroscience, 6, 688-691.[8] Pilotti, M., Antrobus, J.S. and Duff, M. 1997.The effect of presemantic acoustic adaptation onsemantic 'satiation'. Memory and Cognition 25 (3),305-312.[9] Sundberg, J., 1987. The Science of the SingingVoice. Illinois: Northern Illinois Press.[10] Sundberg, J., 1989. Synthesis of Singing byrule. In Mathews, M. V. and Pierce, J. R. [Eds],Current Directions in Computer Music Research.6
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