LING 415 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Phonotactics, Parsing
25 Jun 2019
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Ling 415 d6 - phonological grammar shapes the auditory cortex: a functional magnetic resonance. Our phonological categories are determined by experience in infancy. As adults, phonological categories determine our discriminatory ability of speech sounds. Mismatch negativity (mmn) is modulated by language experience. Phonological grammar, aka phonotactics, has been studied with loanwords. Research by dehaene-lambertz et al. shows that japanese listeners have difficulties distinguishing ebza from ebuza, as shown by mmn. Present study uses neuroimaging of french and japanese participants as they perform an aax discrimination task. Two contrasts - one is predicted to be discriminable to french participants only while the other is predicted to be discriminable only to japanese participants. Can pinpoint areas that are involved in phonological processing alone by subtracting the activations involved in the phonological vs. acoustic discriminations. 7 native speakers of japanese and 7 native speakers of french. Stimuli: two contrasts: ebza-ebuza and ebuuza and ebuza.
