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Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception: An event‐related potential study
Author(s) -
Lipski Silvia C.,
Escudero Paola,
Benders Titia
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01347.x
Subject(s) - mismatch negativity , psychology , categorization , vowel , weighting , cued speech , perception , duration (music) , cognitive psychology , audiology , speech recognition , electroencephalography , linguistics , neuroscience , medicine , art , philosophy , literature , radiology , computer science
In behavioral tasks, previous research has found that advanced Spanish learners of D utch rely on duration cues to distinguish D utch vowels, while D utch listeners rely on spectral cues. This study tested whether language‐specific cue weighting is reflected in preattentive processing. The mismatch negativity ( MMN ) of D utch and S panish participants was examined in response to spectral and duration cues in D utch vowels. The MMN at frontal and mid sites was weaker and peaked later at Fz for S panish than for D utch listeners for the spectrally cued contrasts, whereas both groups responded similarly to the duration cue. In line with overt categorization behavior, these MMN data indicate that preattentive cue weighting depends on the listeners' language experience.