Rapid extraction of lexical tone phonology in Chinese characters: a visual mismatch negativity study.

BACKGROUND: In alphabetic languages, emerging evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging studies shows the rapid and automatic activation of phonological information in visual word recognition. In the mapping from orthography to phonology, unlike most alphabetic languages in which there is a natural...

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Main Authors: Xiao-Dong Wang, A-Ping Liu, Yin-Yuan Wu, Peng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3577723?pdf=render