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Influence of Musical Expertise on Segmental and Tonal Processing in Mandarin Chinese
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Marie, Celine; Delogu, Franco; Lampis, Giulia; Belardinelli, Marta Olivetti; Besson, Mireille – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
A same-different task was used to test the hypothesis that musical expertise improves the discrimination of tonal and segmental (consonant, vowel) variations in a tone language, Mandarin Chinese. Two four-word sequences (prime and target) were presented to French musicians and nonmusicians unfamiliar with Mandarin, and event-related brain…
Descriptors: Musicians, Expertise, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages