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Speech-sound duration processing in a second language is specific to phonetic categories.

Sari Nenonen1, Anna Shestakova, Minna Huotilainen

  • 1Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. sari.nenonen@cbru.helsinki.fi

Brain and Language
|December 8, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Native Russian language background impacts Finnish speech sound processing. Duration-change mismatch negativity (MMN) was reduced for Finnish sounds categorized by Russian, suggesting native language inhibition.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Native language influences the perception of phonemes in a second language.
  • Auditory event-related potentials, specifically mismatch negativity (MMN), can reveal neural processing differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the native Russian language affects the processing of speech-sound duration in Finnish.
  • To compare the effect of Russian phonological categorization on Finnish vowels.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized mismatch negativity (MMN) as a measure of auditory processing.
  • Compared MMN responses to Finnish vowel sounds that could or could not be categorized using the Russian phonological system.

Main Results:

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  • Reduced duration-change MMN was observed for Finnish sounds that could be categorized using Russian phonology.
  • Finnish sounds without a Russian equivalent elicited native-like duration processing, suggesting new category formation.

Conclusions:

  • The native Russian language can inhibit or facilitate the processing of Finnish speech-sound duration depending on phonological mapping.
  • Independent vowel categories can be established for second language sounds not present in the native language.