Discrimination of native and non-native vowel contrasts in bilingual Turkish-German and monolingual German children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP component

被引：21
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作者：
Rinker, Tanja [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Alku, Paavo [4 ]
Brosch, Sibylle [3 ]
Kiefer, Markus [2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Konstanz, Dept Linguist, Zukunftskolleg, D-78457 Constance, Germany
[2] Univ Ulm, Dept Psychiat, Sect Cognit Electrophysiol, D-89069 Ulm, Germany
[3] Univ Ulm, Dept Ear Nose & Throat, Sect Phomatr & Pedaudiol, D-89069 Ulm, Germany
[4] Aalto Univ, Dept Signal Proc & Acoust, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland
来源：
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE | 2010年 / 113卷 / 02期
关键词：
Bilingualism; Vowel discrimination; Mismatch Negativity (MMN); BRAIN RESPONSES; SPEECH SOUNDS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; MMN; EXPERIENCE;
D O I：
10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.007
中图分类号：
R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
学科分类号：
100104 ; 100213 ;
摘要：
The development of native-like memory traces for foreign phonemes can be measured by using the Mismatch Negativity (MMN), a component of the auditory event-related potential Previous studies have shown that the MMN is sensitive to changes in neural organization depending on language experience Here we measured the MMN response in 5-6 year-old monolingual German and bilingual Turkish-German kindergarten children growing up in Germany. MMN was investigated to a German vowel contrast and to a vowel contrast that exists in Turkish and in German The results show that compared to a German control group, the MMN response is less robust in Turkish-German children to the German vowel contrast The response to the contrast that exists in both languages does not differ between groups Overall, the results suggest that the Turkish-German children have not yet fully acquired the German phonetic inventory despite living in Germany since birth and being immersed in a German-speaking environment. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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