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Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity.

Author(s): Gilbert AC, Honda CT, Phillips NA, Baum SR

We examined lexical stress processing in English-French bilinguals. Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) responses were recorded in response to English and French pseudowords, whose primary stress occurred either on a language-consistent "usual" or language-i...

Article GUID: 33333337
Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood

Author(s): Giroud N; Baum SR; Gilbert AC; Phillips NA; Gracco V;

Learning a second language (L2) at a young age is a driving factor of functional neuroplasticity in the auditory brainstem. To date, it remains unclear whether these effects remain stable until adulthood and to what degree the amount of exposure to the L2 i...

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Language learning experience and mastering the challenges of perceiving speech in noise

Author(s): Kousaie S; Baum S; Phillips NA; Gracco V; Titone D; Chen JK; Chai XJ; Klein D;

Given the ubiquity of noisy environments and increasing globalization, the necessity to perceive speech in noise in a non-native language is common and necessary for successful communication. In the current investigation, bilingual individuals who learned t...

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Title:Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity.
Authors:Gilbert AC,  Honda CT,  Phillips NA,  Baum SR
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33333337
DOI:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104892
Category:Brain Lang
PMID:33333337
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, 3640 de la Montagne, Montreal, QC H3G 2A8, Canada; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, 8th Floor, Montreal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada. Electronic address: annie.c.gilbert@mail.mcgill.ca.
2 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, 3640 de la Montagne, Montreal, QC H3G 2A8, Canada; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, 8th Floor, Montreal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada. Electronic address: claire.honda@mail.mcgill.ca.
3 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, 3640 de la Montagne, Montreal, QC H3G 2A8, Canada; Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada. Electronic address: natalie.phillips@concordia.ca.
4 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, 3640 de la Montagne, Montreal, QC H3G 2A8, Canada; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, 8th Floor, Montreal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada. Electronic address: shari.baum@mcgill.ca.

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Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity.

Brain Lang. 2020 Dec 14; 213:104892

Authors: Gilbert AC, Honda CT, Phillips NA, Baum SR

Abstract

We examined lexical stress processing in English-French bilinguals. Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) responses were recorded in response to English and French pseudowords, whose primary stress occurred either on a language-consistent "usual" or language-inconsistent "unusual" syllable. In most conditions, the pseudowords elicited two consecutive MMNs, and somewhat surprisingly, these MMNs were not systematically modulated by bilingual experience. This suggests that it is possible to achieve native-like pre-attentive processing of lexical stress, even in a language that one has not learned since birth.

PMID: 33333337 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]