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Kenway, Bruno, Yu Chuen Tam, Zebunnisa Vanat, Frances Harris, Roger Gray, John Birchall, Robert Carlyon, and Patrick Axon. "Pitch Discrimination." Otology & Neurotology 36, no. 9 (September 2015): 1472–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/mao.0000000000000845.

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Yost, William A. "Dichotic pitch discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 89, no. 4B (April 1991): 1888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2029391.

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Faulkner, Andrew. "Pitch discrimination of harmonic complex signals: Residue pitch or multiple component discriminations?" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 78, no. 6 (December 1985): 1993–2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.392656.

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Moore, Robert E., Casie Keaton, and Christopher Watts. "Role of Pitch Memory in Pitch Matching and Pitch Discrimination." ASHA Leader 10, no. 10 (August 2005): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/leader.ftr1.10102005.4.

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Moore, Robert E., Julie M. Estis, Fawen Zhang, Christopher Watts, and Elizabeth Marble. "Relations of Pitch Matching, Pitch Discrimination, and Otoacoustic Emission Suppression in Individuals Not Formally Trained as Musicians." Perceptual and Motor Skills 104, no. 3 (June 2007): 777–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.104.3.777-784.

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Research has yielded a relationship between pitch matching and pitch discrimination. Good pitch matchers tend to be good pitch discriminators and are often judged to be vocally talented. Otoacoustic emission suppression measures the function of the efferent auditory system which may affect accuracy for pitch matching and pitch discrimination. Formally trained musicians show pitch matching and pitch discrimination superior to those of nonmusicians and have greater efferent otoacoustic emission suppression than nonmusicians. This study investigated the relationship among pitch matching, pitch discrimination, and otoacoustic emission suppression in individuals with no formal musical training and who showed varied pitch matching and pitch discrimination. Analysis suggested a significant relationship between pitch matching and pitch discrimination but not between otoacoustic emission suppression and pitch matching and pitch discrimination. Findings are presented in the context of previous research indicating a significant relationship between otoacoustic emission suppression and musical talent in trained musicians.

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Moore, Robert E., Casie Keaton, and Christopher Watts. "The Role of Pitch Memory in Pitch Discrimination and Pitch Matching." Journal of Voice 21, no. 5 (September 2007): 560–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.04.004.

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Micheyl, Christophe, Kristin Divis, David M. Wrobleski, and Andrew J. Oxenham. "Does fundamental-frequency discrimination measure virtual pitch discrimination?" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128, no. 4 (October 2010): 1930–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3478786.

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Silverman, Daniel. "Pitch discrimination during breathy phonation." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 100, no. 4 (October 1996): 2825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.416645.

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Arzounian, Dorothée, and Alain de Cheveigné. "Context effects in pitch discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, no. 4 (October 2016): 3265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4970349.

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Fancourt, Amy, Frederic Dick, and Lauren Stewart. "Pitch-change detection and pitch-direction discrimination in children." Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain 23, no. 2 (2013): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033301.

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Gockel, Hedwig, Robert P. Carlyon, and Brian C. J. Moore. "Pitch discrimination interference: The role of pitch pulse asynchrony." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, no. 6 (June 2005): 3860–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1898084.

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Wong, Puisan, and Man Wai Cheng. "On the Relationship Between General Auditory Sensitivity and Speech Perception: An Examination of Pitch and Lexical Tone Perception in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63, no. 2 (February 26, 2020): 487–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2019_jslhr-19-00104.

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Purpose Theoretical models and substantial research have proposed that general auditory sensitivity is a developmental foundation for speech perception and language acquisition. Nonetheless, controversies exist about the effectiveness of general auditory training in improving speech and language skills. This research investigated the relationships among general auditory sensitivity, phonemic speech perception, and word-level speech perception via the examination of pitch and lexical tone perception in children. Method Forty-eight typically developing 4- to 6-year-old Cantonese-speaking children were tested on the discrimination of the pitch patterns of lexical tones in synthetic stimuli, discrimination of naturally produced lexical tones, and identification of lexical tone in familiar words. Results The findings revealed that accurate lexical tone discrimination and identification did not necessarily entail the accurate discrimination of nonlinguistic stimuli that followed the pitch levels and pitch shapes of lexical tones. Although pitch discrimination and tone discrimination abilities were strongly correlated, accuracy in pitch discrimination was lower than that in tone discrimination, and nonspeech pitch discrimination ability did not precede linguistic tone discrimination in the developmental trajectory. Conclusions Contradicting the theoretical models, the findings of this study suggest that general auditory sensitivity and speech perception may not be causally or hierarchically related. The finding that accuracy in pitch discrimination is lower than that in tone discrimination suggests that comparable nonlinguistic auditory perceptual ability may not be necessary for accurate speech perception and language learning. The results cast doubt on the use of nonlinguistic auditory perceptual training to improve children's speech, language, and literacy abilities.

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Eccles, Renata, Jeannie van der Linde, Mia le Roux, Jenny Holloway, Douglas MacCutcheon, Robert Ljung, and De Wet Swanepoel. "Is Phonological Awareness Related to Pitch, Rhythm, and Speech-in-Noise Discrimination in Young Children?" Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 52, no. 1 (January 19, 2021): 383–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_lshss-20-00032.

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Purpose Phonological awareness (PA) requires the complex integration of language, speech, and auditory processing abilities. Enhanced pitch and rhythm discrimination have been shown to improve PA and speech-in-noise (SiN) discrimination. The screening of pitch and rhythm discrimination, if nonlinguistic correlates of these abilities, could contribute to screening procedures prior to diagnostic assessment. This research aimed to determine the association of PA abilities with pitch, rhythm, and SiN discrimination in children aged 5–7 years old. Method Forty-one participants' pitch, rhythm, and SiN discrimination and PA abilities were evaluated. To control for confounding factors, including biological and environmental risk exposure and gender differences, typically developing male children from high socioeconomic statuses were selected. Pearson correlation was used to identify associations between variables, and stepwise regression analysis was used to identify possible predictors of PA. Results Correlations of medium strength were identified between PA and pitch, rhythm, and SiN discrimination. Pitch and diotic digit-in-noise discrimination formed the strongest regression model (adjusted R 2 = .4213, r = .649) for phoneme–grapheme correspondence. Conclusions The current study demonstrates predictive relationships between the complex auditory discrimination skills of pitch, rhythm, and diotic digit-in-noise recognition and foundational phonemic awareness and phonic skills in young males from high socioeconomic statuses. Pitch, rhythm, and digit-in-noise discrimination measures hold potential as screening measures for delays in phonemic awareness and phonic difficulties and as components of stimulation programs.

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Flagge, Ashley G., Tara Davis, and Victoria S. Henbest. "The Contribution of Frequency Discrimination Ability to Auditory Temporal Patterning Tests in Children." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63, no. 12 (December 14, 2020): 4314–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00093.

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Purpose The Pitch Patterns Test (PPT) and the Duration Patterns Test (DPT) are clinical auditory processing tests that evaluate temporal patterning skills based on pitch (PPT) or duration (DPT) aspects of sound. Although temporal patterning tests are categorized under the temporal processing domain, successful performance on the PPT also relies on accurate pitch discrimination. However, the relationship between pitch discrimination ability and temporal patterning skills has not been thoroughly evaluated. This study examined the contribution of pitch discrimination ability to performance on temporal patterning in children through the use of a pitch discrimination task and the PPT. The DPT was also given as a control measure to assess temporal patterning with no pitch component. Method Thirty-two typically developing elementary school–age children (6;11–11;3 [years;months]) with normal hearing were given a series of three counterbalanced tasks: an adaptive psychophysical pitch discrimination task (difference limen for frequency [DLF]), the PPT, and the DPT. Results Correlational analysis revealed moderate correlations between DLF and PPT scores. After accounting for age, results of a linear regression analysis suggested that pitch discrimination accounts for a significant amount of variance in performance on the PPT. No significant correlation was found between DLF and DPT scores, supporting the hypothesis that the pitch task had no significant temporal patterning component contributing to the overall score. Discussion These findings indicate that pitch discrimination contributes significantly to performance on the PPT, but not the DPT, in a typically developing pediatric population. This is an important clinical consideration in both assessment and utilization of targeted therapy techniques for different clinical populations.

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Jamal, Yaseen, Simon Lacey, Lynne Nygaard, and K. Sathian. "Interactions Between Auditory Elevation, Auditory Pitch and Visual Elevation During Multisensory Perception." Multisensory Research 30, no. 3-5 (2017): 287–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134808-00002553.

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Cross-modal correspondences refer to associations between apparently unrelated stimulus features in different senses. For example, high and low auditory pitches are associated with high and low visual elevations, respectively. Here we examined how this crossmodal correspondence between visual elevation and auditory pitch relates to auditory elevation. We used audiovisual combinations of high- or low-frequency bursts of white noise and a visual stimulus comprising a white circle. Auditory and visual stimuli could each occur at high or low elevations. These multisensory stimuli could be congruent or incongruent for three correspondence types: cross-modal featural (auditory pitch/visual elevation), within-modal featural (auditory pitch/auditory elevation) and cross-modal spatial (auditory and visual elevation). Participants performed a 2AFC speeded classification (high or low) task while attending to auditory pitch, auditory elevation, or visual elevation. We tested for modulatory interactions between the three correspondence types. Modulatory interactions were absent when discriminating visual elevation. However, the within-modal featural correspondence affected the cross-modal featural correspondence during discrimination of auditory elevation and pitch, while the reverse modulation was observed only during discrimination of auditory pitch. The cross-modal spatial correspondence modulated the other two correspondences only when auditory elevation was being attended, was modulated by the cross-modal featural correspondence only during attention to auditory pitch, and was modulated by the within-modal featural correspondence while performing discrimination of either auditory elevation or pitch. We conclude that the cross-modal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation interacts strongly with auditory elevation.

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Flagge, Ashley G., Julie M. Estis, and Robert E. Moore. "Effects of Spatial Location of Auditory Tones on Pitch Discrimination." Perceptual and Motor Skills 127, no. 2 (January 5, 2020): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031512519897494.

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Pitch discrimination accuracy has been found to be affected by many factors, including handedness, musical training, interfering stimuli, and spatial location of the auditory stimulus. Separating the stimulus input location of interference tones from initial (reference) and final (comparison) tones leads to more accurate pitch discrimination, but the effects of spatial location relationships between the reference, interference, and comparison tones have not been fully explored. This study examined the impact of stimulus spatial location in 24 young, nonmusician females. Participants determined whether the pitch of reference and comparison tones were the same or different in 20 pitch discrimination conditions with varied interference, spatial relationships, and frequencies. Findings revealed that pitch discrimination accuracy was significantly better when (a) there was no interference, (b) the comparison tone was presented to the contralateral brain hemisphere from reference and interference tones, and (c) the comparison tone was presented to the left ear. We discussed the implications of these findings for therapy programs to strengthen pitch discrimination abilities.

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Barbancho, Isabel, George Tzanetakis, Ana M. Barbancho, and Lorenzo J. Tardon. "Discrimination Between Ascending/Descending Pitch Arpeggios." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 26, no. 11 (November 2018): 2194–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/taslp.2018.2858538.

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Chen, Hongbin, Yumi Christine Ishihara, and Fan-Gang Zeng. "Pitch discrimination of patterned electric stimulation." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, no. 1 (July 2005): 338–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.1937228.

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Nazzi, Thierry, Caroline Floccia, and Josiane Bertoncini. "Discrimination of pitch contours by neonates." Infant Behavior and Development 21, no. 4 (January 1998): 779–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0163-6383(98)90044-3.

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Gougoux, Frédéric, Franco Lepore, Maryse Lassonde, Patrice Voss, Robert J. Zatorre, and Pascal Belin. "Pitch discrimination in the early blind." Nature 430, no. 6997 (July 2004): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/430309a.

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Yost, William A., Christopher A. Brown, and Farris Walling. "Fundamental frequency and pitch shift discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127, no. 3 (March 2010): 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3385133.

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Heller Murray, Elizabeth S., Anne F. Hseu, Roger C. Nuss, Geralyn Harvey Woodnorth, and Cara E. Stepp. "Vocal Pitch Discrimination in Children with and without Vocal Fold Nodules." Applied Sciences 9, no. 15 (July 28, 2019): 3042. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9153042.

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Vocal pitch discrimination abilities were compared in sixteen children with vocal fold nodules (CwVN) and sixteen matched controls with typical voices (CwTV). Vocal pitch discrimination was also evaluated in thirty-five vocally healthy children and twenty adults to examine potential changes as a function of maturation. CwTV were categorized as either younger (N = 15, 5.6–7.7 years) or older (N = 20, 8.2–11.7 years). Participants completed two-alternative, forced choice listening tasks in which they judged whether pairs of sustained /ɑ/ tokens were different in pitch. Each pair consisted of a base token with a fundamental frequency (fo) of 216.2 Hz and a test token with a fo that was adaptively modified, according to the participant’s prior judgments. There were no significant differences in pitch discrimination abilities between CwVN and CwTV. Pitch discrimination abilities were significantly poorer in younger and older CwTV as compared to adults. Additionally, younger CwTV had significantly poorer discrimination abilities than older CwTV. Findings from this study suggest that CwVN do not have differences in pitch discrimination abilities, yet, therapies designed for CwVN should consider this developmental trend in perceptual abilities.

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Jiang, Cunmei, Jeff P. Hamm, Vanessa K. Lim, Ian J. Kirk, and Yufang Yang. "Fine-Grained Pitch Discrimination in Congenital Amusics with Mandarin Chinese." Music Perception 28, no. 5 (June 1, 2011): 519–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.28.5.519.

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a group of 11 amusic individuals with mandarin as their first language were tested on a two-tone discrimination task. In addition, a four-tone sequence task with an additional initial reference note and a final return to the reference note (i.e., AABA) was employed to assess if repeating the reference note resulted in an improvement of pitch discrimination for amusic individuals. The findings showed that the amusic participants had difficulty discriminating two-tone pairs and four-tone sequences relative to 11 control participants. The performance of the amusic group on the four-tone sequence was not better than that predicted based upon their performance during the two-tone task, indicating that repetition of the reference note did not aid performance. The findings suggest that tonal language experience may not facilitate fine-grained pitch discrimination for amusics who speak Mandarin Chinese as their first language.

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Matsumoto, K., G. T. Samson, O. D. O'Daly, D. K. Tracy, A. D. Patel, and S. S. Shergill. "Prosodic discrimination in patients with schizophrenia." British Journal of Psychiatry 189, no. 2 (August 2006): 180–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.105.009332.

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SummaryFifteen patients with prominent positive symptoms of schizophrenia and 15 normal controls performed verbal prosodic and pure musical discrimination tasks, with changes in pitch and timing parameters. The patients' performance was comparable to that of controls on the discrimination of terminal pitch changes, but significantly poorer on the more difficult internal pitch discrimination. The latter deficit was positively correlated with the severity of their positive symptoms. The results suggest that patients have a deficit in processing fundamental aspects of prosody, which is associated with the presence of positive symptoms.

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Wang, Yuxia, Xiaohu Yang, Hui Zhang, Lilong Xu, Can Xu, and Chang Liu. "Aging Effect on Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones 2 and 3 and Thresholds of Pitch Contour Discrimination." American Journal of Audiology 26, no. 1 (March 2017): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2016_aja-16-0020.

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Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine the aging effect on the categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese Tone 2 (rising F0 pitch contour) and Tone 3 (falling-then-rising F0 pitch contour) as well as on the thresholds of pitch contour discrimination. Method Three experiments of Mandarin tone perception were conducted for younger and older listeners with Mandarin Chinese as the native language. The first 2 experiments were in the categorical perception paradigm: tone identification and tone discrimination for a series of stimuli, the F0 contour of which systematically varied from Tone 2 to Tone 3. In the third experiment, the just-noticeable differences of pitch contour discrimination were measured for both groups. Results In the measures of categorical perception, older listeners showed significantly shallower slopes in the tone identification function and significantly smaller peakedness in the tone discrimination function compared with younger listeners. Moreover, the thresholds of pitch contour discrimination were significantly higher for older listeners than for younger listeners. Conclusion These results suggest that aging reduced the categoricality of Mandarin tone perception and worsened the psychoacoustic capacity to discriminate pitch contour changes, thereby possibly leading to older listeners' difficulty in identifying Tones 2 and 3.

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Bradshaw, Elizabeth, and Monica A. McHenry. "Pitch Discrimination and Pitch Matching Abilities of Adults who Sing Inaccurately." Journal of Voice 19, no. 3 (September 2005): 431–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2004.07.010.

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Moore, Robert E., Julie Estis, Susan Gordon-Hickey, and Christopher Watts. "Pitch Discrimination and Pitch Matching Abilities with Vocal and Nonvocal Stimuli." Journal of Voice 22, no. 4 (July 2008): 399–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.10.013.

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Sarasola, Xabier, Eva Navas, David Tavarez, Luis Serrano, Ibon Saratxaga, and Inma Hernaez. "Application of Pitch Derived Parameters to Speech and Monophonic Singing Classification." Applied Sciences 9, no. 15 (August 2, 2019): 3140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9153140.

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Speech and singing voice discrimination is an important task in the speech processing area given that each type of voice requires different information retrieval and signal processing techniques. This discrimination task is hard even for humans depending on the length of voice segments. In this article, we present an automatic speech and singing voice classification method using pitch parameters derived from musical note information and f 0 stability analysis. We applied our method to a database containing speech and a capella singing and compared the results with other discrimination techniques based on information derived from pitch and spectral envelope. Our method obtains good results discriminating both voice types, is efficient, has good generalisation capabilities and is computationally fast. In the process, we have also created a note detection algorithm with parametric control of the characteristics of the notes it detects. We compared the agreement of this algorithm with a state-of-the-art note detection algorithm and performed an experiment that proves that speech and singing discrimination parameters can represent generic information about the music style of the singing voice.

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Hantz, Edwin C., Garry C. Crummer, John W. Wayman, Joseph P. Walton, and Robert D. Frisina. "Effects of Musical Training and Absolute Pitch on the Neural Processing of Melodic Intervals: A P3 Event-Related Potential Study." Music Perception 10, no. 1 (1992): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40285536.

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During perceptual tasks involving the discrimination of musical intervals, event-related potentials, specifically the P3, were measured for three subject groups: musicians without absolute pitch, musicians with absolute pitch, and nonmusicians. The two interval-discrimination tasks were a simple two-note contour task and a difficult interval-size discrimination task. Clear effects on the neural waveforms were found for both training and the presence of the absolute pitch ability. In general, training increases the amplitude and shortens the latency of the P3, while the absolute pitch ability reduces the amplitude and shortens the latency, or eliminates the P3 altogether. The absolute pitch effect may be due to the use of a long-term memory strategy involved in the correct performance of the discrimination task rather than performing the task by updating working memory each time a target occurs. Finally, these data are contrasted with those from studies involving sine tones and timbrediscrimination tasks.

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BURNHAM, DENIS, BENJAWAN KASISOPA, AMANDA REID, SUDAPORN LUKSANEEYANAWIN, FRANCISCO LACERDA, VIRGINIA ATTINA, NAN XU RATTANASONE, IRIS-CORINNA SCHWARZ, and DIANE WEBSTER. "Universality and language-specific experience in the perception of lexical tone and pitch." Applied Psycholinguistics 36, no. 6 (November 21, 2014): 1459–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716414000496.

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ABSTRACTTwo experiments focus on Thai tone perception by native speakers of tone languages (Thai, Cantonese, and Mandarin), a pitch–accent (Swedish), and a nontonal (English) language. In Experiment 1, there was better auditory-only and auditory–visual discrimination by tone and pitch–accent language speakers than by nontone language speakers. Conversely and counterintuitively, there was better visual-only discrimination by nontone language speakers than tone and pitch–accent language speakers. Nevertheless, visual augmentation of auditory tone perception in noise was evident for all five language groups. In Experiment 2, involving discrimination in three fundamental frequency equivalent auditory contexts, tone and pitch–accent language participants showed equivalent discrimination for normal Thai speech, filtered speech, and violin sounds. In contrast, nontone language listeners had significantly better discrimination for violin sounds than filtered speech and in turn speech. Together the results show that tone perception is determined by both auditory and visual information, by acoustic and linguistic contexts, and by universal and experiential factors.

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Abramson, Maria Kulick, and Peter J. Lloyd. "Development of a Pitch Discrimination Screening Test for Preschool Children." Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 27, no. 04 (April 2016): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.14052.

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Background: There is a critical need for tests of auditory discrimination for young children as this skill plays a fundamental role in the development of speaking, prereading, reading, language, and more complex auditory processes. Frequency discrimination is important with regard to basic sensory processing affecting phonological processing, dyslexia, measurements of intelligence, auditory memory, Asperger syndrome, and specific language impairment. Purpose: This study was performed to determine the clinical feasibility of the Pitch Discrimination Test (PDT) to screen the preschool child’s ability to discriminate some of the acoustic demands of speech perception, primarily pitch discrimination, without linguistic content. The PDT used brief speech frequency tones to gather normative data from preschool children aged 3 to 5 yrs. Research Design: A cross-sectional study was used to gather data regarding the pitch discrimination abilities of a sample of typically developing preschool children, between 3 and 5 yrs of age. The PDT consists of ten trials using two pure tones of 100-msec duration each, and was administered in an AA or AB forced-choice response format. Study Sample: Data from 90 typically developing preschool children between the ages of 3 and 5 yrs were used to provide normative data. Data Analysis: Nonparametric Mann–Whitney U-testing was used to examine the effects of age as a continuous variable on pitch discrimination. The Kruskal–Wallis test was used to determine the significance of age on performance on the PDT. Spearman rank was used to determine the correlation of age and performance on the PDT. Results: Pitch discrimination of brief tones improved significantly from age 3 yrs to age 4 yrs, as well as from age 3 yrs to the age 4- and 5-yrs group. Results indicated that between ages 3 and 4 yrs, children’s auditory discrimination of pitch improved on the PDT. The data showed that children can be screened for auditory discrimination of pitch beginning with age 4 yrs. Conclusions: The PDT proved to be a time efficient, feasible tool for a simple form of frequency discrimination screening in the preschool population before the age where other diagnostic tests of auditory processing disorders can be used.

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Ping, Lichuan, Meng Yuan, and Haihong Feng. "Musical Pitch Discrimination by Cochlear Implant Users." Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 121, no. 5 (May 2012): 328–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000348941212100508.

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Richards, Virginia M., and Ervin R. Hafter. "Effect of frequency region on pitch discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80, S1 (December 1986): S92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2024046.

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Allen, George D. "Discrimination of level versus nonlevel pitch contours." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84, S1 (November 1988): S157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2025899.

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Demany, Laurent, Catherine Semal, Cecilia Maubaret, and Odon Noblia. "Specific learning phenomena in pitch discrimination tasks." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, no. 5 (November 2000): 2596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4743658.

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Santurette, Sébastien, Mathilde Le Gal de Kérangal, and Suyash N. Joshi. "Effects of harmonic roving on pitch discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137, no. 4 (April 2015): 2226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4920114.

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Yost, William A. "Pitch strength discrimination for iterated rippled noise." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99, no. 4 (April 1996): 2490–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.415613.

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Gockel, Hedwig E., Robert P. Carlyon, and Christopher J. Plack. "Pitch discrimination interference: Monaural and binaural pitches." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, no. 5 (May 2007): 3068. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4808543.

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Lau, Bonnie K., Kaylah Lalonde, Monika-Maria Oster, and Lynne A. Werner. "Infant pitch perception: Missing fundamental melody discrimination." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, no. 1 (January 2017): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4973412.

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McKinnon, Amy, and Michael Kiefte. "Pitch discrimination in children using cochlear implants." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, no. 5 (November 2006): 3130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4787708.

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Gockel, Hedwig E., Robert P. Carlyon, and Christopher J. Plack. "Pitch discrimination: Combination of information across frequency." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3563. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2934611.

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D’Ausilio, Alessandro, Ilaria Bufalari, Paola Salmas, Pierpaolo Busan, and Luciano Fadiga. "Vocal pitch discrimination in the motor system." Brain and Language 118, no. 1-2 (July 2011): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2011.02.007.

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Bahmer, Andreas, and Uwe Baumann. "Psychometric function of jittered rate pitch discrimination." Hearing Research 313 (July 2014): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2014.04.012.

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Deary, Ian J., Brian Head, and Vincent Egan. "Auditory inspection time, intelligence and pitch discrimination." Intelligence 13, no. 2 (April 1989): 135–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-2896(89)90012-3.

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Dolean, Dacian Dorin. "The relationship between pitch discrimination and Romanian students’ spelling performance." Psychology of Language and Communication 17, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 233–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/plc-2013-0015.

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Abstract Previous studies have shown that music can have a positive impact on phonological awareness and on foreign language acquisition. The present research investigates specifically the role of pitch discrimination ability in native and foreign language spelling performance. Two groups of elementary school children were selected based on their pitch discrimination abilities (high and low). Their spelling performance in their native and a foreign (fictional) language was assessed. The results indicate that pitch discrimination ability can be linked to spelling ability in both the native and a foreign language. They also suggest that studying a musical instrument might predict enhanced spelling performance ability

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Jiang, Cunmei, Vanessa K. Lim, Hang Wang, and Jeff P. Hamm. "Difficulties with Pitch Discrimination Influences Pitch Memory Performance: Evidence from Congenital Amusia." PLoS ONE 8, no. 10 (October 25, 2013): e79216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079216.

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Carcagno, Samuele, and Christopher J. Plack. "Pitch Discrimination Learning: Specificity for Pitch and Harmonic Resolvability, and Electrophysiological Correlates." Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 12, no. 4 (April 12, 2011): 503–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10162-011-0266-3.

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Jiang, Cunmei, Fang Liu, and William Forde Thompson. "Impaired Explicit Processing of Musical Syntax and Tonality in a Group of Mandarin-Speaking Congenital Amusics." Music Perception 33, no. 4 (April 1, 2016): 401–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2016.33.4.401.

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We examined explicit processing of musical syntax and tonality in a group of Han Chinese Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia, and the extent to which pitch discrimination impairments were associated with syntax and tonality processing. In Experiment 1, we assessed whether congenital amusia is associated with impaired explicit processing of musical syntax. Congruity ratings were examined for syntactically regular or irregular endings in harmonic and melodic contexts. Unlike controls, amusic participants failed to explicitly distinguish regular from irregular endings in both contexts. Surprisingly, however, a concurrent manipulation of pitch distance did not affect the processing of musical syntax for amusics, and their impaired music-syntactic processing was uncorrelated with their pitch discrimination thresholds. In Experiment 2, we assessed tonality perception using a probe-tone paradigm. Recovery of the tonal hierarchy was less evident for the amusic group than for the control group, and this reduced sensitivity to tonality in amusia was also unrelated to poor pitch discrimination. These findings support the view that music structure is processed by cognitive and neural resources that operate independently of pitch discrimination, and that these resources are impaired in explicit judgments for individuals with congenital amusia.

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Wiener, Seth, and Seth Goss. "SECOND AND THIRD LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ SENSITIVITY TO JAPANESE PITCH ACCENT IS ADDITIVE." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41, no. 04 (March 25, 2019): 897–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263119000068.

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AbstractThis study examines second (L2) and third (L3) language learners’ pitch perception. We test the hypothesis that a listener’s discrimination of and sensitivity (d’) to Japanese pitch accent reflects how pitch cues inform all words a listener knows in an additive, nonselective manner rather than how pitch cues inform words in a selective, Japanese-only manner. Six groups of listeners performed a speeded ABX discrimination task in Japanese. Groups were defined by their L1, L2, and L3 experience with the target language’s pitch cues (Japanese), a language with less informative pitch cues (English), or a language with more informative pitch cues (Mandarin Chinese). Results indicate that sensitivity to pitch is better modeled as a function of pitch’s informativeness across all languages a listener speaks. These findings support cue-centric views of perception and transfer, demonstrate potential advantageous transfer of tonal-L1/L2 speakers, and highlight the cumulative role that pitch plays in language learning.

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Talja, Suvi, Kimmo Alho, and Teemu Rinne. "Source Analysis of Event-Related Potentials During Pitch Discrimination and Pitch Memory Tasks." Brain Topography 28, no. 3 (September 17, 2013): 445–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10548-013-0307-9.

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