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1	Electrophysiological evidence for the integral nature of tone in Mandarin spoken word recognition
	Ho, Amanda. - 2015
	Abstract: Current models of spoken word recognition have been predominantly based on studies of Indo-European languages. As a result, little is known about the recognition processes involved in the perception of tonal languages (e.g., Mandarin Chinese), and the role of lexical tone in speech perception. One view is that tonal languages are processed phonologically through individual segments, while another view is that they are processed lexically as a whole. Moreover, a recent study claimed to be the first to discover an early phonological processing stage in Mandarin (Huang et al., 2014). There seems to be a lack of investigations concerning tonal languages, as no clear conclusions have been made about the nature of tonal processes, or a model of spoken word recognition that best incorporates lexical tone. The current study addressed these issues by presenting 18 native Mandarin speakers with aural sentences with medial target words, which either matched or mismatched the preceding visually presented sentences with medial target words (e.g, 家 /jia1/ “home”). Violation conditions involved target words that differed in the following ways: tone violation, where only the tone was different (e.g., 价 /jia4/ “price”), onset violation, where only the onset was different (e.g., 虾 /xia1/ “shrimp”), and syllable violation, where both the tone and the onset were different (e.g., 糖 /tang2/ “candy”). We did not find evidence for an early phonological processing stage in Mandarin. Instead, our findings indicate that Mandarin syllables are processed incrementally through phonological segments and that lexical tone is strongly associated with semantic access. These results are discussed with respect to modifications for existing models in spoken word recognition to incorporate the processes involved with tonal language recognition. ; Thesis ; Master of Science (MSc)
	Keyword: Chinese; EEG; electroencephalography; ERP; event-related potentials; Mandarin; N400; P200; phonological mapping negativity; PMN; semantic access; speech perception; spoken word recognition; tonal language
	URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18281
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2	Neural responses demonstrate the dynamicity of speech perception
	Kramer, Samantha. - 2014
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3	The Dynamic Role of Subphonemic Cues in Speech Perception: Investigating Coarticulatory Processing Across Sound Classes
	Arbour, Jessica. - 2012
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