French native speakers in the making: From language-general to language-specific voicing boundaries

Hoonhorst, Ingrid; Colin, Cécile; Markessis, Emily; Radeau, Monique; Deltenre, Paul; Serniclaes, Willy

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.005

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“…Allophonic perception is also found in prelinguistic children, but this ability is normally reorganized during the 1st year of life according to the contrasts present in the ambient language (Hoonhorst et al, 2009). In addition, typically developing preschool children's sensitivity to allophonic contrasts has been shown to partly depend on school experience (Horlyck, Reid, & Burnham, 2012), suggesting that school experience might enhance the use of top-down strategies to focus on relevant contrasts and ignore irrelevant ones.…”

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The Categorical Perception Deficit in Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis

Noordenbos

Serniclaes

2015

Scientific Studies of Reading

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The Categorical Perception Deficit in Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis

Noordenbos

Serniclaes

2015

Scientific Studies of Reading

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“…Yet voicing constants (30 -70 ms), for instance, fall in the gamma range and gamma oscillations could play a key role in their perception. For instance, consonants with negative voiceonset time elicit one gamma wave on the EEG at voicing onset and another one at closure release (Trébuchon-Da Fonseca et al, 2005;Hoonhorst et al, 2009). However, the role of gamma cortical oscillations entrainment by speech stimuli is presumably more general than voicing encoding, and could lie in that it globally boosts auditory parsing at gamma rate.…”

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Brain–Speech Alignment Enhances Auditory Cortical Responses and Speech Perception

Saoud

Josse²,

Bertasi³

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J. Neurosci.

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Asymmetry in auditory cortical oscillations could play a role in speech perception by fostering hemispheric triage of information across the two hemispheres. Due to this asymmetry, fast speech temporal modulations relevant for phonemic analysis could be best perceived by the left auditory cortex, while slower modulations conveying vocal and paralinguistic information would be better captured by the right one. It is unclear, however, whether and how early oscillation-based selection influences speech perception. Using a dichotic listening paradigm in human participants, where we provided different parts of the speech envelope to each ear, we show that word recognition is facilitated when the temporal properties of speech match the rhythmic properties of auditory cortices. We further show that the interaction between speech envelope and auditory cortices rhythms translates in their level of neural activity (as measured with fMRI). In the left auditory cortex, the neural activity level related to stimulus-brain rhythm interaction predicts speech perception facilitation. These data demonstrate that speech interacts with auditory cortical rhythms differently in right and left auditory cortex, and that in the latter, the interaction directly impacts speech perception performance.

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“…For speech perception, a stop voicing distinction is mainly based on Voice Onset Time (VOT) (Lisker & Abramson 1964, 1967. Cross-linguistic differences in voicing perception are captured by changes in the VOT boundaries, i.e., by the location of the identification boundaries between voicing categories on a VOT continuum (Hoonhorst et al 2009). In languages with three voicing categories (voiced, voiceless and voiceless aspirated) the mean VOT boundaries are located around ±30ms.…”

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“…In languages with a voiceless aspirated contrast the boundary is at +30ms (Lisker & Abramson 1970), whereas for languages with voiced/voiceless contrast without aspiration the boundary is 0ms (for Spanish : Williams 1977;for French: Serniclaes 1987). Infants below six months of age raised in an English environment are sensitive to both VOT boundaries (±30ms, 0ms), although only the positive VOT boundary is phonological in English (Aslin et al 1981) or the 0ms VOT in the other language (French: Hoonhorst et al 2009;Spanish: Lasky et al 1975).…”

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confidence: 99%