Language Talent and Brain Activity / Edition 1

Language Talent and Brain Activity / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
3110205181
ISBN-13:
9783110205183
Pub. Date:
07/15/2009
Publisher:
De Gruyter
ISBN-10:
3110205181
ISBN-13:
9783110205183
Pub. Date:
07/15/2009
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Language Talent and Brain Activity / Edition 1

Language Talent and Brain Activity / Edition 1

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Overview

This comprehensive project has the objective of describing and assessing pronunciation talent with special focus on its psychological and neural correlates. The first part of this undertaking describes the extensive tests necessary to measure phonetic talent in its various dimensions, such as production and perception, the segmental and suprasegmental levels of speech, and different utterance forms such as spontaneous speech, reading and imitation. Subjects are examined in their native language (German), a familiar second language (English) and, to a lesser degree, an unfamiliar language (Hindi). The project also investigates psychological and behavioral influences such as empathy or motivation on pronunciation performance, as well as correlations with general linguistic aptitude. The described measures and correlations allow a reliable classification of proficiency and talent level to be used in the selection of subjects for the neuroimaging studies in the second part of the project. These use functional magnetic resonance imaging in order to observe differences in brain activity between talented and untalented individuals during the performance of phonetic tasks (perception of phonetic differences, imitation, reading).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110205183
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/15/2009
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , #1
Pages: 374
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Grzegorz Dogil, IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Susanne Maria Reiterer, Universityät Tübingen, Germany.

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