MEG detects neural consequences of anomalous nasalization in vowel-consonant pairs
In: Neuroscience letters, Jg. 397 (2006), Heft 3, S. 263-268
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This study identifies a delay in the neuromagnetic activity evoked by passive auditory presentation of anomalous speech sound combinations. Vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) stimuli were constructed to manipulate vowel nasalization in violation of the patterns of English, in which vowel nasalization ordinarily arises as a predictable coarticulatory effect of anticipatory velum lowering for production of a following nasal consonant. For anomalous stimuli with V1 and C mismatched in nasalization, the neural response to C was delayed relative to congruent control stimuli with V1 and C matched for nasalization. As both anomalous and control stimuli represent linguistically possible speech sound sequences, the temporal disparity in evoked neuromagnetic activity in English speakers reflects a role for language-specific phonological knowledge at the earliest stages of auditory processing.
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MEG detects neural consequences of anomalous nasalization in vowel-consonant pairs
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | FLAGG, Elissa J ; ORAM CARDY, Janis E ; ROBERTS, Timothy P. L |
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Zeitschrift: | Neuroscience letters, Jg. 397 (2006), Heft 3, S. 263-268 |
Veröffentlichung: | Shannon: Elsevier, 2006 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print, 18 ref |
ISSN: | 0304-3940 (print) |
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