TY - CHAP
T1 - Native and Nonnative Processing of Acoustic and Phonological Information of Lexical Tones in Chinese
T2 - Behavioral and Neural Correlates
AU - Yu, Keke
AU - Wang, Ruiming
AU - Li, Ping
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was supported by the Foundation for Innovation Team in Guangdong Higher Education (2015WCXTD003), and Guangdong Province Universities and colleges Pearl River Younger Scholar Funded Scheme (2016) to Ruiming Wang. Research support was also provided by NSF grants (BCS-1533625; BCS-1349110) to Ping Li. We thank three anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript.
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PY - 2020/9/15
Y1 - 2020/9/15
N2 - The perception of acoustic and phonological information in lexical tones is crucial for understanding Chinese words correctly. Research in the past has considered the linguistic functions of both acoustic and phonological information. However, it has been debated whether Chinese lexical tones are processed in the right or the left hemisphere, and whether different types of information may be handled differently in the two hemispheres. For native Chinese speakers (L1), the acoustic information of tones appears to be processed in the right hemisphere, whereas the phonological information of tones is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. For second language (L2) Chinese learners, it has been hypothesized that they may show right-lateralized pattern for processing both acoustic and phonological information at the early stage of Chinese learning; when their processing of these two types of information improves to a higher level at a later stage of Chinese learning, native-like patterns emerge. In this chapter, we discuss how these two types of information play their roles in the processing of lexical tones in Chinese by both native speakers and second language learners of Chinese.
AB - The perception of acoustic and phonological information in lexical tones is crucial for understanding Chinese words correctly. Research in the past has considered the linguistic functions of both acoustic and phonological information. However, it has been debated whether Chinese lexical tones are processed in the right or the left hemisphere, and whether different types of information may be handled differently in the two hemispheres. For native Chinese speakers (L1), the acoustic information of tones appears to be processed in the right hemisphere, whereas the phonological information of tones is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. For second language (L2) Chinese learners, it has been hypothesized that they may show right-lateralized pattern for processing both acoustic and phonological information at the early stage of Chinese learning; when their processing of these two types of information improves to a higher level at a later stage of Chinese learning, native-like patterns emerge. In this chapter, we discuss how these two types of information play their roles in the processing of lexical tones in Chinese by both native speakers and second language learners of Chinese.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-7606-5_5
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-7606-5_5
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
AN - SCOPUS:85103910094
SN - 9789811576058
T3 - Chinese Language Learning Sciences
SP - 79
EP - 99
BT - Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
A2 - Liu, Huei‐Mei
A2 - Tsao, Feng‐Ming
A2 - Li, Ping
PB - Springer Singapore
CY - Singapore
ER -