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In line with the Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL) model, asymmetric patterns of processing were found in the [su] \u223c [\u0282u] word pair where both the MMN (mismatch negativity) and LDN (late discriminative negativity) components were more negative in \/su\/<jats:sub>[\u0282u]<\/jats:sub>(mismatch) than in \/\u0282u\/<jats:sub>[su]<\/jats:sub>(no mismatch), suggesting the spreading of the feature [<jats:sc>HIGH<\/jats:sc>] from the vowel [u] to [\u0282] on the surface. In the [sa] \u223c [\u0282a] pair, however, symmetric negativities (for both MMN and LDN) were observed as there is no conflict between the surface feature [<jats:sc>LOW<\/jats:sc>] from [a] to [\u0282] and the underlying specified feature [<jats:sc>LOW<\/jats:sc>] of [s]. 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