Subject: dichotic pitch perception From: Heriberto Avelino <avelino(at)HUMNET.UCLA.EDU> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:24:33 -0800--=====================_10153115==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dear list members, I am conducting an experiment on dichotic perception of pitch in a tone language which contrasts three phonemic tones (high,falling and low). Some preliminary results indicate that overall falling and high tones have a better scoring than the low tone (even when low tone is delivered to the right ear, and regardless of selective attention conditions). I wonder if there is any psychoacoustic explanation to this observation. I should mention that I controlled the amplitude of the stimuli by normalizing all at 75dB, I also normalized the duration of the stimuli, since words with falling tones are usually longer than low and high tones. I wonder if you know of some references on the topic. I greatly appreciate any suggestion on this. Thanks for any help in advance, Heriberto Avelino ********************************************************* Department of Linguistics, UCLA 'Life is short but wide' 3125 Campbell Hall Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 310 8250634 310 3975909 www.bol.ucla.edu/~avelino/index.html --=====================_10153115==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> Dear list members,<br><br> I am conducting an experiment on dichotic perception of pitch in a tone language which contrasts three phonemic tones (high,falling and low). Some preliminary results indicate that overall falling and high tones have a better scoring than the low tone (even when low tone is delivered to the right ear, and regardless of selective attention conditions). I wonder if there is any psychoacoustic explanation to this observation. I should mention that I controlled the amplitude of the stimuli by normalizing all at 75dB, I also normalized the duration of the stimuli, since words with falling tones are usually longer than low and high tones. I wonder if you know of some references on the topic. I greatly appreciate any suggestion on this.<br><br> Thanks for any help in advance,<br> Heriberto Avelino<br><br> ********************************************************* <br> Department of Linguistics, UCLA <x-tab> </x-tab>'Life is short but wide' <br> 3125 Campbell Hall <br> Box 951543 <br> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 <br> 310 8250634 <br> 310 3975909 <br> <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~avelino/index.html" eudora="autourl">www.bol.ucla.edu/~avelino/index.html</a></font></u></html> --=====================_10153115==.ALT--