TABLE 3.

Summary of Experiment 2 results.

Comparison	Real-word deviant	Other deviant	MMN for real-word deviant	MMN for other deviant	Real word MMN vs. other MMN
Hard pseudoword vs. real word	[pən˨˩]	[mən˨˩]	423–600 ms, p = 0.003	375–525 ms, p = 0.004	Real≈Pseudo, p = 0.533
Easy pseudoword vs. real word	[tei˨˩]	[tsʰei˨˩]	179–251 ms, p = 0.052	186–554 ms, p < 0.001	Real < Pseudo, p < 0.001
Allomorph vs. real word	[mən˧˥]	[pən˧˥]	202–570 ms, p < 0.001	415–565 ms, p = 0.011	Real≈Allomorph, p = 0.107

The results shown here for the hard pseudoword row and the allomorph row are from the Exploratory Analysis, and the results for the easy pseudoword are from the initial analysis. “Other” refers to whichever condition is not the real-word condition in that comparison (e.g., in the comparison between real words and pseudowords, the “other” deviant is the pseudoword deviant). The columns “MMN for real-word deviant” and “MMN for other deviant” report the p-value for the one-tailed test comparing the deviant to the corresponding standard; the column “Real word MMN vs. other MMN” reports the p-value for the test (one-tailed for hard pseudoword and allomorph, two-tailed test for easy pseudoword) comparing the real-word deviant’s MMN to the other deviant’s MMN. The comparisons reported in this column are from the exploratory analysis reported below. Note that “Real < Pseudo” in the table indicates that the MMN for real words is smaller (i.e., more positive) than the MMN for pseudowords.