Electrophysiological Signatures of Perceiving Alternated Tone in Mandarin Chinese: Mismatch Negativity to Underlying Tone Conflict

Electrophysiological Signatures of Perceiving Alternated Tone in Mandarin Chinese: Mismatch Negativity to Underlying Tone Conflict

Although phonological alternation is prevalent in languages, the process of perceiving phonologically alternated sounds is poorly understood, especially at the neurolinguistic level. We examined the process of perceiving Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi (T3 + T3 → T2 + T3) with a mismatch negativity (MMN) e...

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Main Authors: Yuyu Zeng, Robert Fiorentino, Jie Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
phonological alternation
underlying representation
surface representation
mismatch negativity
Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi
spoken word recognition
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735593/full

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