Brain and language
Suprasegmental aspects of phonetic feature representation in human cortex: An fMRI investigation of Cantonese lexical tones.
Ran Tao, Kaile Zhang, Yan Feng, Yi Weng, Gang Peng
Published: 202510.1016/j.bandl.2025.105702
Abstract
This study investigated the neural basis of lexical tone representation in Cantonese, a complex tone language that contrasts pitch height and slope to convey lexical meaning. We used sparse-sampling fMRI to measure brain activity from native Cantones…
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