Mismatch Negativity Unveils Tone Perception Strategies and Degrees of Tone Merging: The Case of Macau Cantonese
Han Wang, Fei Gao, Jingwei Zhang, Ana Paula Soares · 2024
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Description
Wang and co-authors probe how native speakers of Macau Cantonese hear similar tones, using a brain response that flags sound change. Some tone pairs in this variety are merging, and the timing of that hearing process was little known. Their 2024 study pairs thinking skill tests and a discrimination task with brain wave recording for three close tone pairs.
Behavior confirmed one pair fully merged, with two other pairs partway there at set rates. Brain responses showed distinct timing patterns per pair, and attention plus working memory shaped discrimination, strongly for one pair. One pair could be told apart from early signal input, the other needed steady input. The authors link that difference in mental effort to the pairs' different merging rates.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Han Wang, Fei Gao, Jingwei Zhang, Ana Paula Soares |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |