ERP correlates of processing native and non-native language word stress in infants with different language outcomes

Friedrich, Manuela; Herold, Birgit; Friederici, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.06.014

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“…Friederici et al (2007) demonstrated that 4-5 months old German and French infants showed specific 5 MMR to the native stress patterns: German infants to the deviant with stress on the second syllable and French infants to the deviant with stress on the first syllable. Friedrich et al (2009) found an early and a late MMR in 4-5 months old German infants to the deviant with a native stress pattern. According to these studies, infants can discriminate changes in the stress patterns of words as early as 4-5 months, and a preference to native stress patterns can be demonstrated as well.…”

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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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confidence: 79%

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

Honbolygó

Csépe

2013

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Inspection of the 567 nonunique results revealed two additional journal articles and one additional thesis that were missing in the original list. The complete list of items is shown in Table 1; in addition, Friedrich et al (2009) provide a rich analysis of electroencephalographic data.…”

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“…Results focusing on prosodic words appear stable, as two studies with different samples and tasks-albeit coming from the same research group-report positive results. Both Weber, Hahne, Friedrich, and Friederici (2005) and Friedrich, Herold, and Friederici (2009) investigated processing of different word-level stress patterns at 5 months using ERPs. Children were later classified into high versus low vocabulary based on their language outcomes (at 12 and 24 months in Weber et al, 2005, and at 30 months in Friedrich et al, 2009).…”

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Predicting Individual Variation in Language From Infant Speech Perception Measures

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There are increasing reports that individual variation in behavioral and neurophysiological measures of infant speech processing predicts later language outcomes, and specifically concurrent or subsequent vocabulary size. If such findings are held up under scrutiny, they could both illuminate theoretical models of language development and contribute to the prediction of communicative disorders. A qualitative, systematic review of this emergent literature illustrated the variety of approaches that have been used and highlighted some conceptual problems regarding the measurements. A quantitative analysis of the same data established that the bivariate relation was significant, with correlations of similar strength to those found for well-established nonlinguistic predictors of language. Further exploration of infant speech perception predictors, particularly from a methodological perspective, is recommended.Research over the past five decades demonstrates that infants tune their speech perception abilities to language-specific properties of the speech they hear before their first birthday (for a recent review, see Werker & Gervain, 2013). Although most of this past work has sought to pinpoint milestones by using group averages, increasing attention is being paid to correlations between behavioral and neurophysiological measures gathered within the 1st year of life, on the one hand, and individual differences in language development, on the other (e.g., see the collection in Colombo, McCardle, & Freund, 2008;. The study of individual variation in infancy is far from new. For example, habituation and dishabituation measures have been used to assess the fit of different models of the architecture of cognitive skills (e.g., Bornstein, 1998) and to predict language, IQ, and educational outcomes longitudinally, even after several other variables have been controlled for (e.g., Bornstein et al., 2006; see also the Discussion section). Here, we discuss the potential of infant speech processing measures to predict variation in language outcomes over this backdrop of the larger field of cognitive development.Evaluating this emergent strand of research is important for two reasons. First, from a theoretical perspective, focusing on individual differences in speech perception may provide crucial insights into the relative merit of competing theoretical models. For instance, there are two large classes of theories bearing on the emergence of phonology in the 1st year of life (see review in R€ as€ anen, 2012). According to one, infants begin to learn phonology by determining which speech sound categories (which we call phones) their ambient language uses, and they later employ these units to build word formsWe are grateful to our colleagues at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, and at both the Psychology of Language and the Genetics of Language Departments at the MPI for insightful discussions. We thank particularly the reviewers for their extremely constructive comments. Some of this work was done wi...

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“…The first electrophysiological studies on infants' automatic detection of trochaic pattern revealed discriminative abilities below the age of 6 months as well. Weber, Hahne, Friedrich, and Friederici (2004) and Friedrich, Herold, and Friederici (2009) found that German infants of 5 months could well discriminate words of different stress patterns, showing a positive mismatch response to deviants with stress on the first syllable contrasted with standards with stress on the second syllable (Weber et al, 2004), as well as for deviants with stress on the second syllable contrasted with standards of first syllable stress (Friedrich et al, 2009). Friederici, Friedrich, and Christophe (2007) demonstrated in a cross-linguistic study that in German and French infants a language-specific word stress pattern detection was present as early as the 4 th month of age.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Leppänen et al (2002) tested the detection of stress information while changing the duration of consonants. Friederici and her colleagues (Friederici et al (2007), Friedrich et al (2009) and Weber et al (2004) investigated the infants' early sensitivity to stress information by varying the duration of vowels. In contrast, our approach was to use acoustically rich stress information, including several specific cues related to syllabic stress, such as intensity, F0, and rise time.…”

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Effect of maturation on suprasegmental speech processing in full- and preterm infants: A mismatch negativity study

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Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Infants born prematurely are at higher risk for later linguistic deficits present in delayed or atypical processing of phonetic and prosodic information. In order to be able to specify the nature of this atypical development, it is important to investigate the role of early experience in language perception. According to the concept of Gonzalez-Gomez and Nazzi (2012) there is a special intrauterine sensitivity to the prosodic features of languages that should have a special role in language acquisition. Therefore, we may also assume that pre-and full-term infants having months difference in intrauterine experience show different maturation patterns of processing prosodic and phonetic information present at word level. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of these differences on word stress pattern vs. phoneme information processing. Two age groups of infants (6 and 10 month-olds) were included in our study. 21 of 46 of the total of infants investigated were prematurely born with low birth weight. We used the mismatch negativity (MMN) event related brain potential (ERP) component, a widely used electrophysiological correlate of acoustic change detection, for testing the assumed developmental changes of phoneme and word stress discrimination. In a passive oddball paradigm we used a word as standard, a pseudoword as phoneme deviant, and an illegally uttered word as stress deviant. Our results showed no differences in MMN responses in the phoneme deviant condition between the groups, meaning a relatively intact maturation of phoneme processing of preterm infants as compared to their contemporaries. However, the mismatch responses measured in the stress condition revealed significant betweengroup differences. These results strengthen the view that the total length of intrauterine experience influences the time of emergence of prosodic processing.

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ERP correlates of processing native and non-native language word stress in infants with different language outcomes

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 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

Predicting Individual Variation in Language From Infant Speech Perception Measures

Effect of maturation on suprasegmental speech processing in full- and preterm infants: A mismatch negativity study

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