Effects of prosodic familiarity on the automatic processing of words in the human brain

Ylinen, Sari; Strelnikov, Kuzma; Huotilainen, Minna; Näätänen, Risto

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.05.013

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“…Of the three negativities, the first and third were considered as MMNs reflecting the processing of stress changes related to the first and second syllables of the pseudowords: the detection of the lack of stress on the first syllable of the deviant, and the detection of the additional stress on the second syllable. These results are similar to those found in previous experiments (Honbolygó et al, 2004;Ylinen et al, 2009). We also found a negative component between the two MMNs, which was smaller than the MMNs, and was significant only on two frontal electrodes.…”

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“…In the second condition, we reversed the standard and deviant stimuli, and the pseudoword with illegal stress pattern became standard stimulus, and the pseudoword with legal stress pattern became deviant stimulus. We expected to find that the irregular deviant in the first condition would elicit two MMN components similar to previous studies (Honbolygó et al, 2004., Ylinen et al, 2009 In the present study, unlike Ylinen et al (2009) we used a single utterance of a pseudoword. As Pulvermüller and Shtyrov (2006) suggest, in order to study the early effects of word processing it is preferable to reduce stimulus variance, and use single words.…”

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“…As Pulvermüller and Shtyrov (2006) suggest, in order to study the early effects of word processing it is preferable to reduce stimulus variance, and use single words. Since the study of Ylinen et al (2009) provided evidence that the MMN correlates of stress pattern processing are similar when the acoustical variance is increased by using multiple tokens of words, we were confident that the lack of such variance will not influence our results.…”

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“…These results validate our previous results by showing a similar double MMN pattern in the case of pseudowords and words with unfamiliar stress. Ylinen et al (2009) thus have demonstrated that the detection of stress pattern change works at the pre-lexical level, since pseudowords can also elicit the double MMN pattern, and argue against an explanation that the double MMN is based on the processing of acoustical differences between stimuli, because they find this ERP pattern when multiple tokens of standard and deviant stimuli are used. However, the origin of the double MMN appearing in the studies of Honbolygó et al (2004) and Ylinen et al (2009) is still not clear in terms of underlying representations.…”

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“…The study of Ylinen et al (2009) provided further MMN data on the processing of stress patterns. The authors investigated the processing of Finnish words and pseudowords with unfamiliar (stress on the second syllable) versus familiar (stress on the first syllable) word stress patterns using multiple versions of CVCV utterances.…”

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Saliency or template? ERP evidence for long-term representation of word stress

Honbolygó

Csépe

2013

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The present study investigated the event-related brain potential (ERP) correlates of word stress processing. Previous results showed that the violation of a legal stress pattern elicited two consecutive Mismatch Negativity (MMN) components synchronized to the changes on the first and second syllable. The aim of the present study was to test whether ERPs reflect only the detection of salient features present on the syllables, or they reflect the activation of long-term stress related representations.We examined ERPs elicited by pseudowords with no lexical representation in two conditions: the standard having a legal stress patterns, and the deviant an illegal one, and the standard having an illegal stress pattern, and the deviant a legal one. We found that the deviant having an illegal stress pattern elicited two consecutive MMN components, whereas the deviant having a legal stress pattern did not elicit MMN.Moreover, pseudowords with a legal stress pattern elicited the same ERP responses irrespective of their role in the oddball sequence, i.e., if they were standards or deviants.The results suggest that stress pattern changes are processed relying on long-term representation of word stress. To account for these results, we propose that the processing of stress cues is based on language-specific, pre-lexical stress templates.

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Saliency or template? ERP evidence for long-term representation of word stress

Honbolygó

Csépe

2013

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Investigating the neurocognitive background of speech perception with a fast multi-feature MMN paradigm

Honbolygó,

Zulauf,

Zavogianni

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The speech multi-feature MMN (Mismatch Negativity) offers a means to explore the neurocognitive background of the processing of multiple speech features in a short time, by capturing the time-locked electrophysiological activity of the brain known as event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Originating from Näätänen et al. (Clin Neurophysiol 115:140–144, 2004) pioneering work, this paradigm introduces several infrequent deviant stimuli alongside standard ones, each differing in various speech features. In this study, we aimed to refine the multi-feature MMN paradigm used previously to encompass both segmental and suprasegmental (prosodic) features of speech. In the experiment, a two-syllable long pseudoword was presented as a standard, and the deviant stimuli included alterations in consonants (deviation by place or place and mode of articulation), vowels (deviation by place or mode of articulation), and stress pattern in the first syllable of the pseudoword. Results indicated the emergence of MMN components across all segmental and prosodic contrasts, with the expected fronto-central amplitude distribution. Subsequent analyses revealed subtle differences in MMN responses to the deviants, suggesting varying sensitivity to phonetic contrasts. Furthermore, individual differences in MMN amplitudes were noted, partially attributable to participants’ musical and language backgrounds. These findings underscore the utility of the multi-feature MMN paradigm for rapid and efficient investigation of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying speech processing. Moreover, the paradigm demonstrated the potential to be used in further research to study the speech processing abilities in various populations.

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Cortical encoding and neurophysiological tracking of intensity and pitch cues signaling English stress patterns in native and nonnative speakers

Chung

Bidelman

2016

Brain and Language

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Effects of prosodic familiarity on the automatic processing of words in the human brain

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

Saliency or template? ERP evidence for long-term representation of word stress

Saliency or template? ERP evidence for long-term representation of word stress

Investigating the neurocognitive background of speech perception with a fast multi-feature MMN paradigm

Cortical encoding and neurophysiological tracking of intensity and pitch cues signaling English stress patterns in native and nonnative speakers

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