An ERP study on the effect of tone features on lexical tone lateralization in Cantonese. ; Event-related potential study on the effect of tone features on lexical tone lateralization in Cantonese

Ho, Pui Kwan. ; "November 2010." ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-75). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Acknowledgements --- p.i ; Abstract --- p.ii ; List of figures --- p.vi ; List of tables --- p.viii ; Abbreviations --- p.ix ; Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction ; Chapter 1.1. --- Overview --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.2. --- Thesis organization --- p.6 ; Chapter Chapter 2. --- Background ; Chapter 2.1. --- Brain structure and its functional organization --- p.8 ; Chapter 2.2. --- Introduction to lateralization investigation techniques --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.2.1. --- Lesion studies and Wada test --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.2.2. --- Dichotic listening --- p.14 ; Chapter 2.2.3. --- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) --- p.15 ; Chapter 2.2.4. --- Electroencephalography(EEG) & event-related potential(ERP) --- p.16 ; Chapter 2.2.5. --- Other brain imaging techniques --- p.20 ; Chapter 2.2.6. --- Comparing different brain-imaging techniques in this study --- p.20 ; Chapter 2.3. --- Literature review and the current work --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.3.1 --- "The functional and acoustic ""dichotomy""" --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.3.2. --- Studies on lateralization of tones without linguistic context --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.3.3. --- Studies on lexical tone lateralization --- p.27 ; Chapter 2.3.4. --- The current work ´ؤ aim and hypothesis --- p.34 ; Chapter Chapter 3. --- Methodology ; Chapter 3.1. --- Stimuli --- p.36 ; Chapter 3.2. --- Subject --- p.41 ; Chapter 3.3. --- Task design --- p.41 ; Chapter 3.4. --- ERP recording and data processing --- p.44 ; Chapter Chapter 4. --- Results and discussions ; Chapter 4.1. --- Behavioural data analysis --- p.46 ; Chapter 4.2. --- ERP data analysis --- p.48 ; Chapter 4.3. --- Discussions --- p.52 ; Chapter Chapter 5. --- Further discussions ; Chapter 5.1. --- Is lateralization of lexical tone language-specific? --- p.57 ; Chapter 5.2. --- Toward a model of speech lateralization --- p.59 ; Chapter 5.3. --- An ...