Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: has proposed calculating mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects in terms of the characteristics of sound correspondence patterns based among cognates.Patterns are classified into three categories according to the properties of the phonemes in a pattern, whether they are identical or not and whether the perceived phoneme occurs in other cognate words in the listener's dialect.However, within each category, patterns are given the same weight regardless of the perceptual distance between the two phonemes in a pattern.An experiment in which Cantonese speakers judged the similarity and difference of two sounds in Cantonese and Southern Min was carried out to determine the perceptual distance between two initial consonants.The experimental results show that the sound system of a listener's native dialect influences judgment of the distance between stimuli.Use of the perceived phoneme in other cognate word correlates only weakly with the perceptual distance judged by subjects.Calculation of the perceptual distance between two initial consonants was accomplished by multiple regression analysis.The weight assignment for patterns is therefore examined and discussed in light of the results of the present experiment.
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1493946881