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    Successful non-native speech perception is linked to frequency following response phase consistency

    Omote, Akihiro and Jasmin, Kyle and Tierney, Adam (2017) Successful non-native speech perception is linked to frequency following response phase consistency. Cortex 93 , pp. 146-154. ISSN 0010-9452.

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    Abstract

    Some people who attempt to learn a second language in adulthood meet with greater success than others. The causes driving these individual differences in second language learning skill continue to be debated. In particular, it remains controversial whether robust auditory perception can provide an advantage for non-native speech perception. Here, we tested English speech perception in native Japanese speakers through the use of frequency following responses, the evoked gamma band response, and behavioral measurements. Participants whose neural responses featured less timing jitter from trial to trial performed better on perception of English consonants than participants with more variable neural timing. Moreover, this neural metric predicted consonant perception to a greater extent than did age of arrival and length of residence in the UK, and neural jitter predicted independent variance in consonant perception after these demographic variables were accounted for. Thus, difficulties with auditory perception may be one source of problems learning second languages in adulthood.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Auditory, English, FFR, Japanese, Speech
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Adam Tierney
    Date Deposited: 04 Aug 2017 09:50
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:34
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19245

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