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Speaking in Tones: The role of lexical tones in Chinese-speaking Primary Progressive Aphasia

2025-10-27

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Two-thirds of the world’s languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese, employ pitch variation to convey meaning (lexical tone). Existing diagnostic frameworks for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) have been developed for English speakers, and have not considered the impact of salient language-specific variations, such as tone. This study investigates lexical tone processing in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking indi...

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DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.24.25338751

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