@inbook{2afd138c70fd4126987aeff4943e56b7,
title = "Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically",
abstract = "We investigated individual differences in speech imitation / pronunciation ability in late bilinguals using neuro-acoustic perspectives: fMRI plus a novel form of Fourier-transformed spectral analysis. From 138 German-speaking (L1) participants, pretested on various behavioral measures including “speech imitation capacity” based on imitating sentences in an unknown language (Hindi), extreme high and low ability groups (N=9, age 28yrs, rated by 30 native Hindi speakers) were subjected to fMRI and acoustic experiments. During scanning participants had to read aloud visually presented sentences in 3 conditions: (A) in German, (B) English and most difficult (C) German with fake English accent. FMRI details: 1.5T scanner, sparse sampling paradigm, SPM5, flexible factorial ANOVA, random effects, corrected at p",
author = "Reiterer, {Susanne Maria} and Singh, {Nandini C} and Susanne Winkler",
note = "Host publication data : fMRI, accent imitation, prediction of ability, biometrics, acoustic markers",
year = "2012",
month = oct,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-61451-089-5",
volume = "111",
series = "Studies in generative grammar",
pages = "317--339",
editor = "Britta Stolterfoht and Sam Featherston",
booktitle = "Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory",
publisher = "Walter de Gruyter",
}