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Lingzhi Kong1, Mengying Wang1, Danni Wu2
1Language Pathology and Brain Science MEG Lab, School of Communication Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Psych Journal
|December 1, 2022
Abstract:
The adult brain can efficiently track both lower-level (i.e., syllable) and higher-level (i.e., phrase) linguistic structures to comprehend speech. When children actively or passively listened to speech, we found robust neural tracking of syllabic structure but marginally significant tracking of phrasal structure.
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