ArticleJournal of psycholinguistic research2026
Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Prosodic Processing in Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Learners.
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The current study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying linguistic and prosodic processing and examines how physical language signals impact neural processing in Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. It focuses on the auditory perception of language input signals, incorporating principles from the Verbotonal theory and other neuroscience research. The study utilized 320 Hz low-pass filtered and unfiltered sentences in both Chinese (L1) and English (L2) as prosodic and linguistic stimuli. These stimuli were presented under both diotic and dichotic listening conditions. Fifty Chinese university students participated in the study and listened to the stimuli during a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiment using a block design. The results revealed a widely-distributed network involved in processing these signals, with overlapping brain regions including the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (BA 22 and 41), middle temporal gyrus (BA 21), inferior frontal gyrus (BA 44 and 45), middle frontal gyrus (BA 8 and 9), supramarginal gyrus (BA 40), precentral gyrus (BA 4 and 6), postcentral gyrus (BA 1, 2, and 3), and posterior cerebellar areas. Additionally, distinct cerebral areas associated with acoustic, phonological, linguistic, and prosodic processing, as well as attention control and high-level cognitive control were identified during the processing of these signals. The L1 prosodic signal elicited greater engagement in speech processing compared to the L2 prosodic signal. But the L2 prosodic signal resulted in less involvement of sensorimotor and speech processing relative to the L2 linguistic signal, potentially reducing the processing load for L2 processing in Chinese EFL learners.
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