Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody

Gandour, Jackson T.; Tong, Yunxia; Wong, Donald; Talavage, Thomas M.; Džemidžić, Mario; Xu, Yisheng; Li, Xiaojian; Lowe, Mark J.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.004

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“…According to Gandour et al (2004), hemispheric lateralization for speech prosody processing is based on both the high-level linguistic representations and the low-level encoding of acoustic cues. They thought that speech prosody perception is mediated primarily by the right hemisphere, but is left-lateralized (to task-dependent regions) when the task goes beyond the auditory analysis of the complex sound into the realm of language processing.…”

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Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

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Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

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“…Although syntactic and semantic processes are supported primarily by the left-hemisphere, the processing of prosody is primarily a function of the right-hemisphere (Gandour et al, 2004;Pell et al, 2006;Friederici et al, 2002). More specifically, frontal brain regions in the right hemisphere play a role in the comprehension and production of affective prosody.…”

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The role of the insula in speech and language processing

2014

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Lesion and neuroimaging studies indicate that the insula mediates motor aspects of speech production, specifically, articulatory control. Although it has direct connections to Broca's area, the canonical speech production region, the insula is also broadly connected with other speech and language centres, and may play a role in coordinating higher-order cognitive aspects of speech and language production. The extent of the insula's involvement in speech and language processing was assessed using the Activation Likelihood Estimate (ALE) method. Meta-analyses of 42 fMRI studies with healthy adults were performed, comparing insula activation during performance of language (expressive and receptive) and speech (production and perception) tasks. Both tasks activated bilateral anterior insulae. However, speech perception tasks preferentially activated the left dorsal mid-insula, whereas expressive language tasks activated left ventral mid-insula. Results suggest distinct regions of the mid-insula play different roles in speech and language processing.

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“…These studies have scrutinized the role of hemispheres in learning different skills and sub-skills and even specific features of language such as prosodic ones. As an example, Gandour et al, (2004) investigated the roles of hemispheres in the perception of prosodic language. Their proposed model of speech prosody perception showed that right hemisphere regions are primarily involved in complex-sound analysis such as intonation, while left hemisphere regions are activated whenever language processing requires more than the auditory analysis of the complex sound.…”

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“…However, they believed that brain hemispheres work together in a complex dynamical pattern while figurative and literal comprehension take place. Accumulated evidence from acoustical studies, neuro-imaging, neuropsychology, and neuro-anatomy suggests right hemisphere activation during suprasegmental features processing in adults and children (Baum & Pell, 1999;Friederici & Alter, 2004;Gandour, et al, 2004;Jusczyk, 1997;Shipley-Brown, Dingwall, Berlin, Yeni-Komshian, &Gordon-Salant, 1988) Tucker, Watson, andHeilman (1977), as major proponents of the view that right hemisphere controls prosody, conducted a research with 16 participants including eight right hemispheredamaged patients and eight normal control subjects and concluded that the right hemisphere was involved in the production of affective prosody. In addition to affective prosody, numerous studies have examined hemispheric dominance and the production of linguistic prosody.…”

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Relationship Among Brain Hemispheric Dominance, Attitude Towards L1 and L2, Gender, and Learning Suprasegmental Features

Mahmoodi

Zekrati

2016

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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Oral skills are important components of language competence. To have good and acceptable listening and speaking, one must have good pronunciation, which encompasses segmental and suprasegmental features. Despite extensive studies on the role of segmental features and related issues in listening and speaking, there is paucity of research on the role of suprasegmental features in the same domain. Conducting studies which aim at shedding light on the issues related to learning suprasegmental features can help language teachers and learners in the process of teaching/learning English as a foreign language. To this end, this study was designed to investigate the relationship among brain hemispheric dominance, gender, attitudes towards L1 and L2, and learning suprasegmental features in Iranian EFL learners. First, 200 Intermediate EFL learners were selected from different English language teaching institutes in Hamedan and Isfahan, two provinces in Iran, as the sample. Prior to the main stage of the study, Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was used to homogenize the proficiency level of all the participants. Then, the participants were asked to complete the Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire to determine their dominant hemisphere. They were also required to answer two questionnaires regarding their attitudes towards L1 and L2. Finally, the participants took suprasegmental features test. The results of the independent samples t-tests indicated left-brained language learners' superiority in observing and learning suprasegmental features. It was also found that females are better than males in producing suprasegmental features. Furthermore, the results of Pearson Product Moment Correlations indicated that there is significant relationship between attitude towards L2 and learning suprasegmental features. However, no significant relationship was found between attitude towards L1 and learning English suprasegmental features. The findings of this study can provide English learners, teachers and developers of instructional materials with some theoretical and pedagogical implications which are discussed in the paper.

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Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody

Cited by 203 publications

References 82 publications

Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

The role of the insula in speech and language processing

Relationship Among Brain Hemispheric Dominance, Attitude Towards L1 and L2, Gender, and Learning Suprasegmental Features

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