Are lexical tones musical? Native language's influence on neural response to pitch in different domains

Autor: Frank Wijnen, Hugo G. Schnack, Denis K Burnham, Ao Chen, Varghese Peter
Přispěvatelé: LS Psycholinguistiek, UiL OTS Psycholinguistics
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
Mismatch negativity
First language
Electroencephalography/methods
Pitch Perception/physiology
Audiology
Mandarin Chinese
Language and Linguistics
0302 clinical medicine
Non-U.S. Gov't
Pitch Perception
Language
Netherlands
Music psychology
Research Support
Non-U.S. Gov't
05 social sciences
Electroencephalography
Acoustic Stimulation/methods
language
Auditory Perception
Speech Perception
Female
Psychology
Melody
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Auditory Perception/physiology
Linguistics and Language
China
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Research Support
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Cross-domain correlation
Speech and Hearing
Young Adult
Lexical tones
medicine
Journal Article
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Speech Perception/physiology
Tone (linguistics)
language.human_language
Musical pitch
Acoustic Stimulation
Music/psychology
Language Experience Approach
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Music
Pitch (Music)
Zdroj: Brain and Language, 180-182, 31. Academic Press Inc.
ISSN: 1090-2155
0093-934X
Popis: Language experience shapes musical and speech pitch processing. We investigated whether speaking a lexical tone language natively modulates neural processing of pitch in language and music as well as their correlation. We tested tone language (Mandarin Chinese), and non-tone language (Dutch) listeners in a passive oddball paradigm measuring mismatch negativity (MMN) for (i) Chinese lexical tones and (ii) three-note musical melodies with similar pitch contours. For lexical tones, Chinese listeners showed a later MMN peak than the non-tone language listeners, whereas for MMN amplitude there were no significant differences between groups. Dutch participants also showed a late discriminative negativity (LDN). In the music condition two MMNs, corresponding to the two notes that differed between the standard and the deviant were found for both groups, and an LDN were found for both the Dutch and the Chinese listeners. The music MMNs were significantly right lateralized. Importantly, significant correlations were found between the lexical tone and the music MMNs for the Dutch but not the Chinese participants. The results suggest that speaking a tone language natively does not necessarily enhance neural responses to pitch either in language or in music, but that it does change the nature of neural pitch processing: non-tone language speakers appear to perceive lexical tones as musical, whereas for tone language speakers, lexical tones and music may activate different neural networks. Neural resources seem to be assigned differently for the lexical tones and for musical melodies, presumably depending on the presence or absence of long-term phonological memory traces.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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