Neural basis of first and second language processing of sentence-level linguistic prosody

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-108

  Gandour, Jackson ^a   Tong, Yunxia ^a   Talavage, Thomas ^b   Wong, Donald ^c   Dzemidzic, Mario ^c   Xu, Yisheng ^a   Li, Xiaojian ^e   Lowe, Mark ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Contrastive stress; Emphatic stress; fMRI; Human auditory processing; Intonation; Language; Mandarin Chinese; Prosody; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCULATION; CHINA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL SULCUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846920878     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20255     Document Type: Article

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