Neural correlates of segmental and tonal
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Jack Gandour; Yisheng Xu; Donald Wong; Mario Dzemidzic; Mark Lowe; Xiaojian Li;
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The Chinese language provides an optimal window for investigating both segmental and suprasegmental units. The aim of this cross‐linguistic fMRI study is to elucidate neural mechanisms involved in extraction of Chinese consonants, rhymes, and tones from syllable pairs that are distingui