ERP Responses to Regional Accent Reflect Two Distinct Processes of Perceptual Compensation.

ABSTRACT: Humans possess a robust speech-perception apparatus that is able to cope with variation in spoken language. However, linguists have often claimed that this coping ability must be limited, since otherwise there is no way for such variation to lead to language change and regional accents. Previous research has shown that the presence or absence of perceptual compensation is indexed by the N400 and P600 components, where the N400 reflects the general awareness of accented speech input, and the P600 responds to phonological-rule violations. The present exploratory paper investigates the hypothesis that these same components are involved in the accommodation to sound change, and that their amplitudes reduce as a sound change becomes accepted by an individual. This is investigated on the basis o

SUBMITTER: Voeten CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6587377 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature