PMID- 24953142
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151230
LR  - 20141013
IS  - 1469-8986 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-5772 (Linking)
VI  - 51
IP  - 11
DP  - 2014 Nov
TI  - Segmental and suprasegmental features in speech perception in Cantonese-speaking 
      second graders: an ERP study.
PG  - 1158-68
LID - 10.1111/psyp.12257 [doi]
AB  - Using a multiple-deviant oddball paradigm, this study examined second graders' 
      brain responses to Cantonese speech. We aimed to address the question of whether 
      a change in a consonant or lexical tone could be automatically detected by 
      children. We measured auditory mismatch responses to place of articulation and 
      voice onset time (VOT), reflecting segmental perception, as well as Cantonese 
      lexical tones including level tone and contour tone, reflecting suprasegmental 
      perception. The data showed that robust mismatch negativities (MMNs) were 
      elicited by all deviants in the time window of 300-500 ms in second graders. 
      Moreover, relative to the standard stimuli, the VOT deviant elicited a robust 
      positive mismatch response, and the level tone deviant elicited a significant MMN 
      in the time window of 150-300 ms. The findings suggest that Hong Kong second 
      graders were sensitive to neural discriminations of speech sounds both at the 
      segmental and suprasegmental levels.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Society for Psychophysiological Research.
FAU - Tong, Xiuhong
AU  - Tong X
AD  - Psychology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
FAU - McBride, Catherine
AU  - McBride C
FAU - Lee, Chia-Ying
AU  - Lee CY
FAU - Zhang, Juan
AU  - Zhang J
FAU - Shuai, Lan
AU  - Shuai L
FAU - Maurer, Urs
AU  - Maurer U
FAU - Chung, Kevin K H
AU  - Chung KK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140623
PL  - United States
TA  - Psychophysiology
JT  - Psychophysiology
JID - 0142657
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Evoked Potentials/*physiology
MH  - Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Hong Kong
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Speech Perception/*physiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cantonese
OT  - MMN
OT  - Segmental
OT  - Speech perception
OT  - Suprasegmental
OT  - p-MMR
EDAT- 2014/06/24 06:00
MHDA- 2015/12/31 06:00
CRDT- 2014/06/24 06:00
PHST- 2013/10/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/05/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/06/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/06/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/12/31 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/psyp.12257 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychophysiology. 2014 Nov;51(11):1158-68. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12257. Epub 2014 Jun 
      23.