Purpose The authors investigated the neurophysiological bases of vowel perception in
children with specific language impairment (SLI) compared with typical language …

The auditory processing of physical stimulus features can be measured by the mismatch
negativity. Past studies have shown that higher-order stimulus features also elicit a …

Purpose Speech perception can be described as the transformation of continuous acoustic
information into discrete memory representations. Therefore, research on neural …

Language experience enhances discrimination of speech contrasts at a behavioral-
perceptual level, as well as at a pre-attentive level, as indexed by event-related potential …

For several decades, the aetiology of specific language impairment (SLI) has been
associated with a central auditory processing deficit disrupting the normal language …

In an increasingly globalized world mastering a second language (L2) provides a clear
advantage. However, after early childhood, not everyone can easily learn a foreign …

In early childhood, the human brain goes through a period of tuning to native speech sounds
but retains remarkable flexibility, allowing the learning of new languages throughout life …

In 1939, Pauline Davis reported the first study on event-related potentials (ERPs) performed
on awake humans. ERPs are time-locked brain potentials that occur in response to …

Background The ability to repeat polysyllabic nonwords such as “blonterstaping” has
frequently been shown to correlate with language learning ability but it is not clear why such …

Abstract Language‐related change‐detection processes are often investigated using
syllables that are very simple in terms of phonological structure. However, phonological …