Speech perception entails both top-down processing that relies primarily on language
experience and bottom-up processing that depends mainly on instant auditory input …

Most investigations of the representation and processing of speech sounds focus on their
segmental representations, and considerably less is known about the representation of …

This study examined how semantic transparency modulated the processing of spoken
Chinese compound words with event-related potential (ERP) recording. A reverse-block …

The current study adopted the MMN additivity approach to examine the pre-attentive
perceptual integration of vowels and tones. Twenty Cantonese listeners participated in the …

Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, a tonal language, pitch level and pitch contour are two
dimensions of lexical tones according to their acoustic features (ie, pitch patterns). A change …

This event-related potential (ERP) study examines the time course of context-dependent
talker normalization in spoken word identification. We found three ERP components, the N1 …

Although several experiments reported rapid cortical plasticity induced by passive exposure
to novel segmental patterns, few studies have devoted attention to the neural dynamics …

This study examined whether Chinese spoken compound words are processed via full-form
access or combination through morphemes by recording mismatch negativity (MMN). MMN …

To master linguistic communication, humans must acquire large vocabularies quickly and
effortlessly. Efficient word learning might be facilitated by the ability to rapidly acquire novel …

The remarkable rapidity and effortlessness of speech perception and word reading by
skilled listeners or readers suggest implicit or automatic mechanisms underlying language …