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ArticleBrain and behavior2021

Allophonic perception of VOT contrasts in Spanish children with dyslexia.

Willy Serniclaes, Miguel López-Zamora, Soraya Bordoy, Juan L Luque

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Willy SerniclaesInstitute of Neuroscience and Cognition, CNRS, UMR 8002, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Miguel López-ZamoraDepartamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de CC de la Educación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3466-4465
Soraya BordoyDepartamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Juan L LuqueDepartamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3199-4808

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introductionPrevious studies have evidenced a different mode of speech perception in dyslexia, characterized by the use of allophonic rather than phonemic units. People with dyslexia perceive phonemic features (such as voicing) less accurately than typical readers, but they perceive allophonic features (i.e., language-independent differences between speech sounds) more accurately.

methodIn this study, we investigated the perception of voicing contrasts in a sample of 204 Spanish children with or without dyslexia. Identification and discrimination data were collected for synthetic sounds varying along three different voice onset time (VOT) continua (ba/pa, de/te, and di/ti). Empirical data will be contrasted with a mathematical model of allophonic perception building up from neural oscillations and auditory temporal processing.

resultsChildren with dyslexia exhibited a general deficit in categorical precision; that is, they discriminated among phonemically contrastive pairs (around 0-ms VOT) less accurately than did chronological age controls, irrespective of the stimulus continuum. Children with dyslexia also exhibited a higher sensitivity in the discrimination of allophonic features (around ±30-ms VOT), but only for the stimulus continuum that was based on a nonlexical contrast (ba/pa).

conclusionFitting the neural network model to the data collected for this continuum suggests that allophonic perception is due to a deficit in "subharmonic coupling" between high-frequency oscillations. Relationships with "temporal sampling framework" theory are discussed.

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DyslexiaSpeech PerceptionAuditory PerceptionChildHumansLanguagePhoneticsallophonic perceptioncategorical perceptiondyslexiaSpanishvoice onset time

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