Swift Prosodic Modulation of Lexical Access: Brain Potentials From Three North Germanic Language Varieties.

Purpose: According to most models of spoken word recognition, listeners probabilistically activate a set of lexical candidates, which is incrementally updated as the speech signal unfolds. Speech carries segmental (speech sound) as well as suprasegmental (prosodic) information. The role of the latte...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 400 - 415
Autores principales: Hjortdal, Anna, Frid, Johan, Novén, Mikael, Rolla, Mikael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Feb2024
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          Hjortdal, Anna
          Frid, Johan
          Novén, Mikael
          Rolla, Mikael
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          Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.
          Lund University Humanities Lab, Lund University, Sweden.
          Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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        Germany
        Language & languages
        Uncertainty
        Brain
        Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
        Speech perception
        Experimental design
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        Physiological aspects of speech
        Phonological awareness
        Neurophysiology
        Electroencephalography
        Confidence intervals
        Human voice
        Regression analysis
        Comparative studies
        Research funding
        Descriptive statistics
        Data analysis software
        Statistical correlation
        Prompts (Psychology)
        Longitudinal method
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          Language & languages
          Uncertainty
          Germany
          Brain
          Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
          Speech perception
          Experimental design
          Research
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Phonological awareness
          Neurophysiology
          Electroencephalography
          Confidence intervals
          Human voice
          Regression analysis
          Comparative studies
          Research funding
          Descriptive statistics
          Data analysis software
          Statistical correlation
          Prompts (Psychology)
          Longitudinal method
      ab: Purpose: According to most models of spoken word recognition, listeners probabilistically activate a set of lexical candidates, which is incrementally updated as the speech signal unfolds. Speech carries segmental (speech sound) as well as suprasegmental (prosodic) information. The role of the latter in spoken word recognition is less clear. We investigated how suprasegments (tone and voice quality) in three North Germanic language varieties affected lexical access by scrutinizing temporally fine-grained neurophysiological effects of lexical uncertainty and information gain. Method: Three event-related potential (ERP) studies were reanalyzed. In all varieties investigated, suprasegments are associated with specific word endings. Swedish has two lexical “word accents” realized as pitch falls with different timings across dialects. In Danish, the distinction is in voice quality. We combined pronunciation lexica and frequency lists to calculate estimates of lexical uncertainty about an unfolding word and information gain upon hearing a suprasegmental cue and the segment upon which it manifests. We used single-trial mixed-effects regression models run every 4 ms. Results: Only lexical uncertainty showed solid results: a frontal effect at 150-400 ms after suprasegmental cue onset and a later posterior effect after 200 ms. While a model including only segmental information mostly performed better, it was outperformed by the suprasegmental model at 200-330 ms at frontal sites. Conclusions: The study points to suprasegmental cues contributing to lexical access over and beyond segments after around 200 ms in the North Germanic varieties investigated. Furthermore, the findings indicate that a previously reported “pre-activation negativity” predominantly reflects forward-looking processing.
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