PMID- 27140864
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170908
LR  - 20190901
IS  - 1090-2155 (Electronic)
IS  - 0093-934X (Linking)
VI  - 155-156
DP  - 2016 Apr-May
TI  - Cortical encoding and neurophysiological tracking of intensity and pitch cues 
      signaling English stress patterns in native and nonnative speakers.
PG  - 49-57
LID - S0093-934X(15)30146-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.004 [doi]
AB  - We examined cross-language differences in neural encoding and tracking of 
      intensity and pitch cues signaling English stress patterns. Auditory mismatch 
      negativities (MMNs) were recorded in English and Mandarin listeners in response 
      to contrastive English pseudowords whose primary stress occurred either on the 
      first or second syllable (i.e., "nocTICity" vs. "NOCticity"). The contrastive 
      syllable stress elicited two consecutive MMNs in both language groups, but 
      English speakers demonstrated larger responses to stress patterns than Mandarin 
      speakers. Correlations between the amplitude of ERPs and continuous changes in 
      the running intensity and pitch of speech assessed how well each language group's 
      brain activity tracked these salient acoustic features of lexical stress. We 
      found that English speakers' neural responses tracked intensity changes in speech 
      more closely than Mandarin speakers (higher brain-acoustic correlation). Findings 
      demonstrate more robust and precise processing of English stress (intensity) 
      patterns in early auditory cortical responses of native relative to nonnative 
      speakers.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Chung, Wei-Lun
AU  - Chung WL
AD  - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, TN 38152, 
      USA.
FAU - Bidelman, Gavin M
AU  - Bidelman GM
AD  - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, TN 38152, 
      USA; Institute for Intelligent System, University of Memphis, TN 38152, USA. 
      Electronic address: g.bidelman@memphis.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160430
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Brain Lang
JT  - Brain and language
JID - 7506220
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain/*physiology
MH  - Cues
MH  - Evoked Potentials
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - Male
MH  - *Multilingualism
MH  - *Pitch Perception
MH  - *Speech Perception
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - *Auditory event-related brain potentials (ERPs)
OT  - *Mandarin Chinese
OT  - *Mismatch negativity (MMN)
OT  - *Prosody
OT  - *Suprasegmental phonology
EDAT- 2016/05/04 06:00
MHDA- 2017/09/09 06:00
CRDT- 2016/05/04 06:00
PHST- 2015/10/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/04/04 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/04/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/05/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/05/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/09/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0093-934X(15)30146-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Brain Lang. 2016 Apr-May;155-156:49-57. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.004. Epub 
      2016 Apr 30.