English and Mandarin native speakers' cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN

Zhen Zeng; Liquan Liu; Alba Tuninetti; Varghese Peter; Feng-Ming Tsao; Karen Mattock

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105151

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English and Mandarin native speakers' cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN

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English and Mandarin native speakers' cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN

Zhen Zeng, Liquan Liu, Alba Tuninetti, Varghese Peter, Feng-Ming Tsao and Karen Mattock

Brain and Language, Vol.232, pp.1-10

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105151

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Cognition

Behavioural neuroscience

Stress perception

Language rhythmicity

Cue-weighting

mis-match negativity (MMN)

late discriminative negativity (LDN)

multi-feature paradigm

Iambictrochaic law

Past research on how listeners weight stress cues such as pitch, duration and intensity has reported two inconsistent patternss: listeners’ weighting conforms to 1) their native language experience (e.g., language rhythmicity, lexical tone), and 2) a general “iambic-trochaic law” (ITL), favouring innate sound groupings in cue perception. This study aims to tease apart the above effects by investigating the weighting of pitch, duration and intensity cues in stress-timed (Australian English) and non-stress-timed and tonal (Taiwan Mandarin) language speaking adults using a mismatch negativity (MMN) multi-feature paradigm. Results show effects that can be explained by language-specific rhythmic influence, but only partially by the ITL. Moreover, these findings revealed cross-linguistic differences indexed by both MMN and late discriminative negativity (LDN) responses at cue and syllable position levels, and thus call for more sophisticated perspectives for existing cue-weighting models.

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Title: English and Mandarin native speakers' cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN
Authors: Zhen Zeng (Author) - Western Sydney University
Liquan Liu (Author) - Western Sydney University
Alba Tuninetti (Author) - Bilkent University
Varghese Peter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Feng-Ming Tsao (Author) - National Taiwan University
Karen Mattock (Author) - Western Sydney University
Publication details: Brain and Language, Vol.232, pp.1-10
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105151
ISSN: 1090-2155
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Psychology
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99654598802621
Output Type: Journal article

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