Language aptitude for pronunciation in advanced second language (L2) Learners: Behavioural predictors and neural substrates

Brain and Language

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 366-376

  Hu, Xiaochen ^a,b,c   Ackermann, Hermann ^a   Martin, Jason A ^a   Erb, Michael ^b   Winkler, Susanne ^b   Reiterer, Susanne M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Empathy; Individual differences; Language aptitude; Phonological working memory; Pronunciation; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; EMPATHY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE APTITUDE; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHONETIC CODING ABILITY; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EMPATHY; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LANGUAGE APTITUDE; PHONOLOGICAL WORKING MEMORY; PRONUNCIATION; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MULTILINGUALISM; PERSONALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888047500     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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