The dichotic perception of Mandarin tones by native and nonnative
listeners was examined in order to investigate the lateralization
of lexical tone. Twenty American listeners with no tone language
background and 20 Chinese listeners were asked to identify dichotically
presented tone pairs by identifying which tone they heard in each
ear. For the Chinese listeners, 57\% of the total errors occurred
via the left ear, indicating a significant right ear advantage. However,
the American listeners revealed no significant ear preference, with
48\% of the errors attributable to the left ear. These results indicated
that Mandarin tones are predominantly processed in the left hemisphere
by native Mandarin speakers, whereas they are bilaterally processed
by American English speakers with no prior tone experience. The results
also suggest that the left hemisphere superiority for native Mandarin
tone processing is similar to native processing of other tone languages.
Wang, Jongman, Sereno_2001_Dichotic perception of Mandarin tones by Chinese and American listeners.pdf:Wang, Jongman, Sereno_2001_Dichotic perception of Mandarin tones by Chinese and American listeners.pdf:PDF
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%1 Wang2001
%A Wang, Yue
%A Jongman, Allard
%A Sereno, Joan A
%D 2001
%J Brain and Language
%K Adult,Brain,Brain: Laterality,Functional Laterality: Listening Perception,Speech Perception: Tests,English,Female,Functional Time,Speech physiology,Dichotic physiology,Humans,L1,L2,Language,Male,Mandarin,Reaction physiology,language,perception,tone
%N 3
%P 332--48
%R 10.1006/brln.2001.2474
%T Dichotic perception of Mandarin tones by Chinese and American listeners
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11703061
%V 78
%X The dichotic perception of Mandarin tones by native and nonnative
listeners was examined in order to investigate the lateralization
of lexical tone. Twenty American listeners with no tone language
background and 20 Chinese listeners were asked to identify dichotically
presented tone pairs by identifying which tone they heard in each
ear. For the Chinese listeners, 57\% of the total errors occurred
via the left ear, indicating a significant right ear advantage. However,
the American listeners revealed no significant ear preference, with
48\% of the errors attributable to the left ear. These results indicated
that Mandarin tones are predominantly processed in the left hemisphere
by native Mandarin speakers, whereas they are bilaterally processed
by American English speakers with no prior tone experience. The results
also suggest that the left hemisphere superiority for native Mandarin
tone processing is similar to native processing of other tone languages.
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listeners was examined in order to investigate the lateralization
of lexical tone. Twenty American listeners with no tone language
background and 20 Chinese listeners were asked to identify dichotically
presented tone pairs by identifying which tone they heard in each
ear. For the Chinese listeners, 57\% of the total errors occurred
via the left ear, indicating a significant right ear advantage. However,
the American listeners revealed no significant ear preference, with
48\% of the errors attributable to the left ear. These results indicated
that Mandarin tones are predominantly processed in the left hemisphere
by native Mandarin speakers, whereas they are bilaterally processed
by American English speakers with no prior tone experience. The results
also suggest that the left hemisphere superiority for native Mandarin
tone processing is similar to native processing of other tone languages.},
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