A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension.

ABSTRACT: When we comprehend language from speech, the phase of the neural response aligns with particular features of the speech input, resulting in a phenomenon referred to as neural tracking. In recent years, a large body of work has demonstrated the tracking of the acoustic envelope and abstract linguistic units at the phoneme and word levels, and beyond. However, the degree to which speech tracking is driven by acoustic edges of the signal, or by internally-generated linguistic units, or by the interplay of both, remains contentious. In this study, we used naturalistic story-listening to investigate (1) whether phoneme-level features are tracked over and above acoustic edges, (2) whether word entropy, which can reflect sentence- and discourse-level constraints, impacted the encoding of a

SUBMITTER: Tezcan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328533 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature