Hemispheric asymmetry in processing low- and high-pass filtered Cantonese speech in tonal and non-tonal language speakers

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1224-1243

  Chan, Ka Wing ^a   Hsiao, Janet H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

DFF theory; Hemispheric asymmetry; Lexical tones; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CANTONESE SPEECH; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MANDARIN SPEECH; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878408847     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.702915     Document Type: Article

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