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ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2017

Successful non-native speech perception is linked to frequency following response phase consistency.

Akihiro Omote, Kyle Jasmin, Adam Tierney

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Article in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors.

Akihiro OmoteDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Kyle JasminDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Adam TierneyDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.tierney@bbk.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 109719/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some people who attempt to learn a second language in adulthood meet with greater success than others. The causes driving these individual differences in second language learning skill continue to be debated. In particular, it remains controversial whether robust auditory perception can provide an advantage for non-native speech perception. Here, we tested English speech perception in native Japanese speakers through the use of frequency following responses, the evoked gamma band response, and behavioral measurements. Participants whose neural responses featured less timing jitter from trial to trial performed better on perception of English consonants than participants with more variable neural timing. Moreover, this neural metric predicted consonant perception to a greater extent than did age of arrival and length of residence in the UK, and neural jitter predicted independent variance in consonant perception after these demographic variables were accounted for. Thus, difficulties with auditory perception may be one source of problems learning second languages in adulthood.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAuditory PerceptionEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHumansLanguageMalePhoneticsSpeechSpeech PerceptionYoung AdultAuditoryEnglishFFRJapaneseSpeech

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PMID28654816
PMCPMC5542039

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