Previous studies have found that musicians typically discriminate Mandarin tones better than non-musicians. However, the relationship between musical experience and tone perception is unclear. In the current study, 39 monolingual native English speakers with no previous experience of tone languages and a range of musical backgrounds (non-musicians and amateur musicians) completed 6 tasks, including lexical tone identification, working memory, test of first language (L1) and second language (L2) segmental perception and the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index which measures musical ability and experience. Results indicated that tone identification was significantly correlated with music training, musical ability, and pitch discrimination. However, a path analysis showed that pitch discrimination and musical ability, but not music training, directly influenced tone identification. Music training had a positive direct influence on pitch discrimination and musical ability, and indirectly influences tone identification via these mediators. Follow-up multivariate multiple regression showed that different tones are affected differently: pitch discrimination ability mainly influenced identification of Tones 3 and 4, while musical ability significantly influenced Tones 1 and 4. Overall, naïve, non-tone language speakers do not need music training or a musical background to be able to identify Mandarin tones with a high degree of accuracy.
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Phonetica
International Journal of Phonetic Science
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Editors-in-Chief:
Benjamin V. Tucker
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Englisch
Erstveröffentlichung:
1. Januar 1957
Erscheinungsweise:
6 Hefte pro Jahr
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Aims & Scope
Phonetica is an international forum for phonetic science that addresses all aspects of the subject matter including phonetic descriptions, articulatory and signal analytic measures of production, perception, acquisition, and phonetic variation and change. Contemporary interdisciplinary research on phonetics employs a wide range of methodological approaches to investigate the properties and principles of phonetics in communicative settings across the world’s languages, from instrumental and acoustic measures to perceptual and neurocognitive procedures, to computational modelling. It also ranges across styles, types of language users, and communicative modalities (speech, sign, song). Phonetica thus provides a platform for a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of phonetic science across languages and dialects, across the lifespan, and across contexts. Papers published in this journal report expert original work that deals both with theoretical issues, new empirical data, and innovative methods and applications that help to advance the field.
Introducing a new article type: Methods Articles
Methodology articles are intended to provide phoneticians with a venue to publish work that is of methodological interest. This article type provides researchers with the opportunity to publish short (3000-4000 words) descriptions of methodological approaches in the phonetic sciences. These articles might include topics covering the validation of acoustic measures, methods for investigating speech articulation, experimental designs and implementations, computational tools, and statistical methods.
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Founded 1957 by E. Zwirner.
Edited by E. Zwirner 1957–1969, B. Malmberg 1962–1969,
H. Pilch 1962–1978, W. Bethge 1963–1969, G. Ungeheuer 1970–1978.
Redactor 1970–1978 W. Bethge. Edited by K.J. Kohler 1979–2013.
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| Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.62 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 1.6 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.640 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 1.024 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
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Editor-in-Chief
Benjamin Tucker
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
USA
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Richard Wright
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
USA
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Donald Derrick (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Sonia Frota (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China)
Allard Jongman (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA)
Ghada Khattab (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Mariko Kondo (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
Pärtel Lippus (Tartu Ülikool, Tartu, Estonia)
Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada)
Peggy Pik Ki Mok (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Rajka Smiljanic (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Oliver Niebuhr (Alsion University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark
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William J. Barry (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Patrice Speeter Beddor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Catherine Best (Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia)
Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Janet Fletcher (University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia)
Louis Goldstein (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
John Hajek (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
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Rachel Hayes-Harb (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
David House (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Shigeto Kawahara (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Alexei Kochetov (University of Toronto, Toronto, ONT, Canada)
Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany)
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Rachel Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
Alicia Beckford Wassink (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Kevin Watson (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Douglas H. Whalen (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
Patrick C.M. Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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