Who do you love, your mother or your horse? An event-related brain potential analysis of tone processing in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-135

  Brown Schmidt, Sarah ^a,b   Canseco Gonzalez, Enriqueta ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Event related potentials; Lexical tone; N400

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LOVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LOVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 3142592642     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000017223.98667.10     Document Type: Article

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