An ERP study of good production vis-à-vis poor perception of tones in Cantonese: implications for top-down speech processing.

This study investigated a theoretically challenging dissociation between good production and poor perception of tones among neurologically unimpaired native speakers of Cantonese. The dissociation is referred to as the near-merger phenomenon in sociolinguistic studies of sound change. In a passive o...

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Main Authors: Sam-Po Law, Roxana Fung, Carmen Kung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547009?pdf=render