Language Talent and Brain Activity

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Language Talent and Brain Activity

Edited by: Grzegorz Dogil and Susanne Maria Reiterer

Volume 1 in the series Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110215496

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About this book

This comprehensive project has the objective of describing and assessing pronunciation talent with special focus on its psychological and neural correlates. The first part of this undertaking describes the extensive tests necessary to measure phonetic talent in its various dimensions, such as production and perception, the segmental and suprasegmental levels of speech, and different utterance forms such as spontaneous speech, reading and imitation. Subjects are examined in their native language (German), a familiar second language (English) and, to a lesser degree, an unfamiliar language (Hindi). The project also investigates psychological and behavioral influences such as empathy or motivation on pronunciation performance, as well as correlations with general linguistic aptitude. The described measures and correlations allow a reliable classification of proficiency and talent level to be used in the selection of subjects for the neuroimaging studies in the second part of the project. These use functional magnetic resonance imaging in order to observe differences in brain activity between talented and untalented individuals during the performance of phonetic tasks (perception of phonetic differences, imitation, reading).

Author / Editor information

Grzegorz Dogil, IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Susanne Maria Reiterer, Universität Tübingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Short portraits of the authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Talent and proficiency in language Matthias Jilka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Assessment of phonetic ability Matthias Jilka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Cognitive aspects of pronunciation talent Giuseppina Rota and Susanne Maria Reiterer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Personality and pronunciation talent in second language acquisition Xiaochen Hu and Susanne Maria Reiterer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Functional imaging of language competentbrain areas Wolfgang Grodd, Dirk Wildgruber and Vinod Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Brain and language talent: a synopsis Susanne Maria Reiterer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS): An incidental “speech talent” following acquired brain damage? Bettina Brendel and Hermann Ackermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Musicality and phonetic language aptitude Davide Nardo and Susanne Maria Reiterer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Sociolinguistic factors in language proficiency: phonetic convergence as a signature of pronunciation talent. Natalie Lewandowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Segmental factors in language proficiency: Coarticulatory resistance as a signature of pronunciation talent Henrike Baumotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Prosodic factors in language proficiency: intonational variation as a signature of pronunciation talent Volha Anufryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Direct brain feedback and language learning from the gifted Giuseppina Rota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Beyond talent: a short language biography of Prof. Max Mangold Grzegorz Dogil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Foreign Language Teachers and Learners, Linguists, Phoneticians, Psychologists, Neurophysiologists, Neuroscientists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 366
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 17
Keywords: Language Talent; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Language Acquisition

eBook

Published: July 29, 2009
ISBN: 9783110215496

Hardcover

Published: July 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110205183