The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech.

ABSTRACT: The present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded the cerebral activity of Spanish native listeners, who performed a semantic categorization task, while listening to positive, negative and neutral words produced in standard Spanish or in four foreign accents. The behavioral results yielded longer latencies for emotional than for neutral words in both native and foreign-accented speech, with no difference between positive and negative words. The electrophysiological results replicated previous findings from the emotional language literature, with the amplitude of the Late Positive Complex (LPC), associat

SUBMITTER: Hatzidaki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4376116 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature