Representation and Processing of Lexical Tone and Tonal Variants: Evidence from the Mismatch Negativity

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 12; p. e0143097
• Main Authors: Li, Xiaoqing, Chen, Yiya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.12.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acoustics; Adolescent; Analysis; Chinese languages; Construction standards; Contours; EEG; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials; Female; Frequency; Gender differences; Humans; Information processing; Language; Lexical processing; Linguistics; Long term memory; Male; Mental representation; Mismatch negativity; Neuroimaging; Neurophysiology; Phonetics; Pitch; Pitch Perception - physiology; Positron emission tomography; Pronunciation; Reaction Time; Representations; Shape; Sound; Speech; Studies; Tone; Young Adult; China

Pronunciation variation is ubiquitous in the speech signal. Different models of lexical representation have been put forward to deal with speech variability, which differ in the level as well as the nature of mental representation. We present the first mismatch negativity (MMN) study investigating t...