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/

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spelling	pubmed-41653492014-10-02 Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity Yu, Keke Wang, Ruiming Li, Li Li, Ping Neuroscience 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 preattentive stage with event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the mismatch negativity (MNN). Specifically, we distinguished the acoustic from the phonological information by manipulating phonological category and acoustic interval of the stimulus materials. We found a significant main effect of phonological category for the peak latency of MMN, but a main effect of both phonological category and acoustic interval for the mean amplitude of MMN. The results indicated that the two types of information, acoustic and phonological, play different roles in the processing of Chinese lexical tones: acoustic information only impacts the extent of tonal processing, while phonological information affects both the extent and the time course of tonal processing. Implications of these findings are discussed in light of neurocognitive processes of phonological processing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4165349/ /pubmed/25278863 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00729 Text en Copyright © 2014 Yu, Wang, Li and Li. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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author	Yu, Keke Wang, Ruiming Li, Li Li, Ping
spellingShingle	Yu, Keke Wang, Ruiming Li, Li Li, Ping Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
author_facet	Yu, Keke Wang, Ruiming Li, Li Li, Ping
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title	Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
title_short	Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
title_full	Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
title_fullStr	Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
title_full_unstemmed	Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
title_sort	processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in mandarin chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
description	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 preattentive stage with event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the mismatch negativity (MNN). Specifically, we distinguished the acoustic from the phonological information by manipulating phonological category and acoustic interval of the stimulus materials. We found a significant main effect of phonological category for the peak latency of MMN, but a main effect of both phonological category and acoustic interval for the mean amplitude of MMN. The results indicated that the two types of information, acoustic and phonological, play different roles in the processing of Chinese lexical tones: acoustic information only impacts the extent of tonal processing, while phonological information affects both the extent and the time course of tonal processing. Implications of these findings are discussed in light of neurocognitive processes of phonological processing.
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Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity

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