Pitch accent and lexical tone processing in Chinese discourse comprehension: An ERP study

Brain Research

Volumn 1222, Issue , 2008, Pages 192-200

  Li, Xiaoqing ^a,b   Yang, Yufang ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chinese; Discourse processing; ERP; Lexical tone; Pitch accent; Semantic information

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46749130792     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.031     Document Type: Article

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