Mismatch negativity to pitch contours is influenced by language experience

Chandrasekaran, Bharath; Krishnan, Ananthanarayan; Gandour, Jackson T.

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.064

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“…Our result showed that the peak latency of across-category deviants was earlier than that of within-category deviants. This pattern is consistent with Chandrasekaran et al (2007b) and further indicated the impact that pitch contour shapes have on the MMN peak latency. In addition, as discussed earlier, the present study further indicated the interaction of two independent variables, showing the different impacts of acoustic interval and phonological category in lexical tone processing.…”

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“…Pitch contour refers to the direction of change in F0 according to Gandour (1983). Chandrasekaran et al (2007b) investigated whether different pitch contours of Chinese lexical tones have different impacts on tonal processing by tone 1, tone 2 and tone 3. Their results showed that the MMN peak latency elicited by tone 1 vs. tone 3 was earlier than that elicited by tone 2 vs. tone 3.…”

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Processing of Acoustic and Phonological Information of Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Revealed by Mismatch Negativity

Wang¹,

Li²,

Yu³

et al. 2014

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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The accurate perception of lexical tones in tonal languages involves the processing of both acoustic information and phonological information carried by the tonal signal. In this study we evaluated the relative role of the two types of information in native Chinese speaker's processing of tones at a preattentive stage with event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the mismatch negativity (MNN). Specifically, we distinguished the acoustic from the phonological information by manipulating phonological category and acoustic interval of the stimulus materials. We found a significant main effect of phonological category for the peak latency of MMN, but a main effect of both phonological category and acoustic interval for the mean amplitude of MMN. The results indicated that the two types of information, acoustic and phonological, play different roles in the processing of Chinese lexical tones: acoustic information only impacts the extent of tonal processing, while phonological information affects both the extent and the time course of tonal processing. Implications of these findings are discussed in light of neurocognitive processes of phonological processing.

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Processing of Acoustic and Phonological Information of Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Revealed by Mismatch Negativity

Wang¹,

Li²,

Yu³

et al. 2014

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“…Using speech stimuli representative of Mandarin lexical tones in a passive oddball paradigm [3,4], it has been demonstrated that the T1/T2 and T1/T3 conditions, which involve a contrast between level (T1) and contour (T2, T3) tones, elicit larger mismatch negativity (MMN) in the Chinese group relative to the English. Thus, we infer that automatic, involuntary, preattentive processing of lexical tones at early stages of pitch processing in the cortex may be shaped by a listeners' long-term familiarity with the pitch contours of a particular language.…”

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“…Mandarin Chinese is a tone language. In addition to consonants and vowels, Chinese has four tones: ma 1 4 'scold' [T4]. Tones 1-4 can be described phonetically as high level, high rising, low falling rising, and high falling, respectively [2].…”

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Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours

2007

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Language experience is known to modulate the preattentive processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours when presented in the speech domain. To assess if experience-dependent effects are specific to speech, we evaluated the mismatch negativity response to nonspeech homologs (iterated rippled noise) of such curvilinear pitch contours (Mandarin: Tone 1, 'high level'; Tone 2, 'high rising') by Chinese and English listeners as well as to a pitch contour that was a linear approximation of Tone 2 ('linear ascending ramp'). Mandarin speakers showed larger mismatch negativity responses than English to the curvilinear pitch contours only. These results suggest that experience-dependent neural plasticity in early cortical processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours is sensitive to naturally occurring pitch dimensions but not specific to speech per se.

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“…Based on previous studies, data from the Fz and FCz electrodes were selected for statistical analyses, where the strongest mismatch effects were usually observed (e.g. Chandrasekaran, Krishnan, & Gandour, 2007;Tong et al, 2014;Tsang, Jia, Huang, & Chen, 2011).…”

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Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

Law

2017

Atten Percept Psychophys

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This study investigated whether individual differences in cognitive functions, attentional abilities in particular, were associated with individual differences in the quality of phonological representations, resulting in variability in speech perception and production. To do so, we took advantage of a tone merging phenomenon in Cantonese, and identified three groups of typically developed speakers who could differentiate the two rising tones (high and low rising) in both perception and production [+Per+Pro], only in perception [+Per-Pro], or in neither modalities [-Per-Pro]. Perception and production were reflected, respectively, by discrimination sensitivity d′ and acoustic measures of pitch offset and rise time differences. Components of event-related potential (ERP)-the mismatch negativity (MMN) and the ERPs to amplitude rise time-were taken to reflect the representations of the acoustic cues of tones. Components of attention and working memory in the auditory and visual modalities were assessed with published test batteries. The results show that individual differences in both perception and production are linked to how listeners encode and represent the acoustic cues (pitch contour and rise time) as reflected by ERPs. The present study has advanced our knowledge from previous work by integrating measures of perception, production, attention, and those reflecting quality of representation, to offer a comprehensive account for the underlying cognitive factors of individual differences in speech processing. Particularly, it is proposed that domain-general attentional switching affects the quality of perceptual representations of the acoustic cues, giving rise to individual differences in perception and production.

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Mismatch negativity to pitch contours is influenced by language experience

Cited by 149 publications

References 40 publications

Processing of Acoustic and Phonological Information of Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Revealed by Mismatch Negativity

Processing of Acoustic and Phonological Information of Lexical Tones in Mandarin Chinese Revealed by Mismatch Negativity

Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours

Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

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