Acoustic and brain imaging fingerprints of speech sound imitation ability in late bilinguals

Susanne Maria Reiterer; Xiaochen Hu; T. Ammaponnu Sumathi; Nandini C Singh

Acoustic and brain imaging fingerprints of speech sound imitation ability in late bilinguals

Susanne Maria Reiterer, Xiaochen Hu, T. Ammaponnu Sumathi, Nandini C Singh

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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

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference (of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language) - San Sebastian, Spain Duration: 25 Oct 2012 → 27 Oct 2012 http://www.neurolang.org/conference/

Conference

Conference	Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference (of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language)
Abbreviated title	NLC
Country/Territory	Spain
City	San Sebastian
Period	25/10/12 → 27/10/12
Internet address	http://www.neurolang.org/conference/

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

301401 Brain research
602008 English studies
602040 Psycholinguistics
503011 Subject didactics of humanities
501011 Cognitive psychology

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Acoustic and brain imaging fingerprints of speech sound imitation ability in late bilinguals. / Reiterer, Susanne Maria; Hu, Xiaochen; Sumathi, T. Ammaponnu et al.

2012. Paper presented at Neurobiology of Language Annual Conference (of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language), San Sebastian, Spain.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed

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