Differential Neurobehavioral Effects of Cross-Modal Selective Priming on Phonetic and Emotional Prosodic Information in Late Second Language Learners.

Purpose: Spoken language is inherently multimodal and multidimensional in natural settings, but very little is known about how second language (L2) learners undertake multilayered speech signals with both phonetic and affective cues. This study investigated how late L2 learners undertake parallel pr...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 63; no. 8; pp. 2508 - 2522
Autores principales: Chieh Kao, Yang Zhang
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Aug2020
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        atl: Differential Neurobehavioral Effects of Cross-Modal Selective Priming on Phonetic and Emotional Prosodic Information in Late Second Language Learners.
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          Chieh Kao
          Yang Zhang
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          Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
          Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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        Analysis of variance
        Emotions
        Memory
        Multilingualism
        Phonetics
        English as a foreign language
        Neurophysiology
        Reaction time
        Research funding
        Speech perception
        Statistics
        T-test (Statistics)
        Data analysis
        Phonological awareness
        Data analysis software
        Descriptive statistics
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          Analysis of variance
          Emotions
          Memory
          Multilingualism
          Phonetics
          Language Schools
          English as a foreign language
          Neurophysiology
          Reaction time
          Research funding
          Speech perception
          Statistics
          T-test (Statistics)
          Data analysis
          Phonological awareness
          Data analysis software
          Descriptive statistics
      ab: Purpose: Spoken language is inherently multimodal and multidimensional in natural settings, but very little is known about how second language (L2) learners undertake multilayered speech signals with both phonetic and affective cues. This study investigated how late L2 learners undertake parallel processing of linguistic and affective information in the speech signal at behavioral and neurophysiological levels. Method: Behavioral and event-related potential measures were taken in a selective cross-modal priming paradigm to examine how late L2 learners (N = 24, M = 25.54 years) assessed the congruency of phonetic (target vowel: /a/ or /i/) and emotional (target affect: happy or angry) information between the visual primes of facial pictures and the auditory targets of spoken syllables. Results: Behavioral accuracy data showed a significant congruency effect in affective (but not phonetic) priming. Unlike a previous report on monolingual first language (L1) users, the L2 users showed no facilitation in reaction time for congruency detection in either selective priming task. The neurophysiological results revealed a robust N400 response that was stronger in the phonetic condition but without clear lateralization and that the N400 effect was weaker in late L2 listeners than in monolingual L1 listeners. Following the N400, late L2 learners showed a weaker late positive response than the monolingual L1 users, particularly in the left central to posterior electrode regions. Conclusions: The results demonstrate distinct patterns of behavioral and neural processing of phonetic and affective information in L2 speech with reduced neural representations in both the N400 and the later processing stage, and they provide an impetus for further research on similarities and differences in L1 and L2 multisensory speech perception in bilingualism.
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    language: English
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