Discrimination of native and non-native vowel contrasts in bilingual Turkish-German and monolingual German children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP component

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 90-95

  Rinker, Tanja ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^c   Brosch, Sibylle ^b   Kiefer, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Mismatch Negativity (MMN); Vowel discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; KINDERGARTEN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; TURKEY;

EID: 77951499182     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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