Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity

The accurate perception of lexical tones in tonal languages involves the processing of both acoustic information and phonological information carried by the tonal signal. In this study we evaluated the relative role of the two types of information in native Chinese speaker’s processing of tones at a...

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Main Authors: Yu, Keke, Wang, Ruiming, Li, Li, Li, Ping
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165349/