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When one person’s mistake is another’s standard usage: The effect of foreign accent on syntactic processing

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Hanulikova,  Adriana
Adaptive Listening, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language, Donostia, Spain;

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Van Alphen,  Petra M.
Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Weber,  Andrea
Adaptive Listening, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;

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Hanulikova, A., Van Alphen, P. M., Van Goch, M. M., & Weber, A. (2012). When one person’s mistake is another’s standard usage: The effect of foreign accent on syntactic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 878-887. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00103.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-C126-7
Abstract
How do native listeners process grammatical errors that are frequent in non-native speech? We investigated whether the neural correlates of syntactic processing are modulated by speaker identity. ERPs to gender agreement errors in sentences spoken by a native speaker were compared with the same errors spoken by a non-native speaker. In line with previous research, gender violations in native speech resulted in a P600 effect (larger P600 for violations in comparison with correct sentences), but when the same violations were produced by the non-native speaker with a foreign accent, no P600 effect was observed. Control sentences with semantic violations elicited comparable N400 effects for both the native and the non-native speaker, confirming no general integration problem in foreign-accented speech. The results demonstrate that the P600 is modulated by speaker identity, extending our knowledge about the role of speaker's characteristics on neural correlates of speech processing.