Early exposure to non-native language alters preattentive vowel discrimination

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 388, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 121-125

  Peltola, Maija S ^a   Kuntola, Minna ^a   Tamminen, Henna ^a   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^a   Aaltonen, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Early language exposure; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Non native speech perception

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23944500564     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.06.037     Document Type: Article

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