Historically, the brainstem has been neglected as a part of the brain involved in language
processing. We review recent evidence of language-dependent effects in pitch processing …

In tonal language such as Chinese, lexical tone serves as a phonemic feature in
determining word meaning. Meanwhile, it is close to prosody in terms of suprasegmental …

Previous studies have suggested that the perception of vowels and consonants changes
from language-universal to language-specific between 6 and 12months of age. This report …

The present study investigated the neurophysiological correlates of categorical perception of
Chinese lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. Relative to standard stimuli, both within-and …

The hierarchical nature of language requires human brain to internally parse connected-
speech and incrementally construct abstract linguistic structures. Recent research revealed …

Background: While previous studies have shown that children affected by dyslexia exhibit a
deficit in categorical perception of segmental features in alphabetic languages, it remains …

We investigated the influences of phonological similarity on the time course of spoken word
processing in Mandarin Chinese. Event related potentials were recorded while adult native …

The present study investigates how age, phonological saliency, and deviance size affect the
presence of mismatch negativity (MMN) and positive mismatch response (P-MMR). This …

Foreign language learning in adulthood often takes place in classrooms where learning
outcomes vary widely among students, for both initial learning and long-term retention …

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