Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes

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  • dc.contributor.author Romero Rivas, Carlos, 1986-ca
  • dc.contributor.author Martin, Clara D.ca
  • dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-ca
  • dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-11T08:38:01Z
  • dc.date.available 2018-06-11T08:38:01Z
  • dc.date.issued 2016
  • dc.description.abstract Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory processes are modulated by indexical properties of the speakers, such as a speaker's accent. Event-related brain potentials were obtained while native speakers of Spanish listened to native (Experiment 1) or foreign-accented speakers (Experiment 2) of Spanish producing highly constrained sentences. The sentences ended in: (1) the highest cloze probability completion, (2) a word semantically related to the expected ending, or (3) a word with no semantic overlap with the expected ending. In Experiment 1, we observed smaller N400 mean amplitudes for the semantically related words as compared to the words with no semantic overlap, replicating previous findings. In Experiment 2, we observed no difference in integrating semantically related and unrelated words when listening to accented speech. These results suggest that linguistic anticipatory processes are affected by indexical properties of the speakers, such as the speaker's accent.en
  • dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by an FPI Grant (BES-2012-056668) and three project Grants (PSI2014-54500, PSI2011-23033 and Consolider INGENIO CSD2007-00012) awarded by the Spanish Government; by one grant from the Catalan Government (SGR 2014-1210); by one grant from the Basque Government (PI_2015_1_25); and by one grant from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework (FP7/2007-2013 Cooperation grant agreement 613465-AThEME). C.D.M. is supported by the IKERBASQUE Institution, the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, and by the Severo Ochoa Program Grant SEV-2015-049. A. Caecostenetroides is supported by the ICREA Institution and the Center for Brain and Cognition.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Romero-Rivas C, Martin CD, Costa A. Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes. Neuropsychologia. 2016;85: 245-55. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.022
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.022
  • dc.identifier.issn 0028-3932
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34868
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Elsevierca
  • dc.relation.ispartof Neuropsychologia. 2016;85: 245-55.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/PSI2014-54500
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033
  • dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.022
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  • dc.subject.other Neurolingüística
  • dc.title Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processesca
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion