刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语言、认知与神经科学》2022年第1期

LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE 

Volume 37, Issue 1, 2022

LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE（SSCI一区，2020 IF：2.331）2022年第1期共刊文7篇。研究论文涉及电生理学、发音音系学、词汇激活、大脑结构研究等方面。主题包括内部言语、词义与句法处理、句子重音等。

目录

ARTICLES

■It’s the words you use and how you say them: electrophysiological correlates of the perception of imitated masculine speech by Megan Walker, Conrad Perry, Pages 1–21.

■Monitoring internal speech: an advantage for syllables over phonemes?, by Pierre Hallé, Laura Manoiloff, Jiayin Gao, Juan Segui, Pages 22-41.

■ It’s about time! Time as a parameter for lexical and syntactic processing: an eye-tracking-while-listening investigation, by Carolyn Baker, Tracy Love, Pages 42–62.

■ Structural variation in the temporal lobe predicts learning and retention of non-native speech sounds, by Pamela Fuhrmeister, Emily B. Myers, Pages 63–79.

■ Pronoun production and comprehension in American Sign Language: the interaction of space, grammar, and semantics, by Anne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I. Mayberry, Pages 80–102.

■ How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress, by Sophie Kutscheid, Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Adrian Leemann, Bettina Braun, Pages 103–119.

■ Age-related effects on lexical, but not syntactic, processes during sentence production, by Sophie M. Hardy, Katrien Segaert, Linda Wheeldon, Pages 120–134.

摘要

It’s the words you use and how you say them: electrophysiological correlates of the perception of imitated masculine speech

Megan Walker, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Conrad Perry, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract Gender characteristics of speech to do with prosody and linguistic style influence how a person is understood. We investigated electrophysiological correlates of these. Twenty-four people listened to sentences spoken by a female who manipulated her prosody by using a feminine and an imitated masculine voice and her linguistic style by using function words differentially associated with males and females. Event-related potentials unexpectedly showed a larger N400 elicited by imitated masculine compared to feminine prosody. A prosody by linguistic style interaction was also found in late positive components and a later window, where sentences congruent with speaker sex and gender (i.e. feminine prosody, linguistic style, and voice) were more negative going than sentences that were not. Further results showed less upper-alpha (∼10–13 Hz) event-related desynchronisation with imitated masculine compared to feminine prosody in a late time-window. These results suggest gender atypical speech affects early and reduces later semantic processing.

Key words: Language, gender, prosody, linguistic style, electrophysiology

Monitoring internal speech: an advantage for syllables over phonemes?

Pierre Hallé, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS-Paris 3 and EFL Labex); Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition (CNRS-Paris 5 and EFL Labex)

Laura Manoiloff, Cognitive Psychology of Language and Psycholinguistics Research Group, Center of research of the Faculty of Psychology (CIPSI), National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Jiayin Gao, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Juan Segui, Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition (CNRS-Paris 5 and EFL Labex)

Abstract Listeners generally detect syllables faster than phonemes in overt speech. This “syllable advantage” holds robustly for utterance-initial CV vs. C targets [Segui et al., 1981. Phoneme monitoring, syllable monitoring and lexical access. British Journal of Psychology, 72(4), 471–477]. We report a syllable advantage when monitoring inner speech. Spanish-speaking Argentinian participants presented with pictures were faster and more accurate at detecting CV than C targets at the beginning of the pictures’ names. This CV over C advantage maintained, although substantially weakened, after adding CV’ foils in CV-target trials, a manipulation logically more detrimental to CV- than C-detection. Our results converge with previous studies showing intriguing parallelisms between overt and inner speech perception and processing, supporting a restricted version of Levelt’s perceptual-loop hypothesis. We discuss what common basic units of processing could be, borrowing from the articulatory phonology framework and its proposal of a “common currency” between speakers and listeners.

Key words: Inner speech, internal monitoring, syllable detection, phoneme detection, articulatory phonology

It’s about time! Time as a parameter for lexical and syntactic processing: an eye-tracking-while-listening investigation

Carolyn Baker, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Tracy Love, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA; School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, SDSU, San Diego, USA; Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, San Diego, USA

Abstract We examined the time-course of lexical activation, deactivation, and the syntactic operation of dependency linking during the online processing of object-relative sentence constructions using eye-tracking-while-listening. We explored how manipulating temporal aspects of the language input affects the tight lexical and syntactic temporal constraints found in sentence processing. The three temporal manipulations were (1) increasing the duration of the direct object noun, (2) adding the disfluency uh after the noun, and (3) replacing the disfluency with a silent pause. The findings from this experiment revealed that the disfluent and silence temporal manipulations enhanced the processing of subject and object noun phrases by modulating activation and deactivation. The manipulations also changed the time-course of dependency linking (increased reactivation of the direct object). The modulated activation dynamics of these lexical items are thought to play a role in mitigating interference and suggest that deactivation plays a beneficial role in complex sentence processing.

Key words: Sentence processing, lexical activation, lexical deactivation, syntactic reactivation, temporal manipulation

Structural variation in the temporal lobe predicts learning and retention of non-native speech sounds

Pamela Fuhrmeister, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Emily B. Myers, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Abstract Studies of non-native speech sound learning report considerable individual variability in learning new sounds and retaining them in memory. The current study tested whether individual variation in brain structure (measured using MRI) accounts for differences in learning or retention of non-native speech sounds. Fifty-seven participants were tested on identification and discrimination of difficult non-native speech sounds in the evening before training, after training, and tested again the next morning. Surface area and volume of the left superior temporal gyrus positively predicted discrimination learning, whereas surface area of the left transverse temporal gyrus negatively predicted overnight improvement of identification. Hippocampal volume as well as gyrification of bilateral transverse temporal gyri positively predicted overnight improvement of discrimination. Findings suggest that individual differences in non-native speech sound learning can be traced to differences in brain structure supporting perception, while differences in retention are linked to the structure of hippocampal regions important for memory consolidation.

Key words: Non-native speech sound learning, memory consolidation, brain structure, individual differences, structural MRI

Pronoun production and comprehension in American Sign Language: the interaction of space, grammar, and semantics

Anne Therese Frederiksen, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Rachel I. Mayberry, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Abstract Spoken language research has investigated how pronouns are influenced by grammar and semantics/pragmatics. In contrast, sign language research has focused on unambiguous pronominal reference arising from spatial co-reference. However, understanding signed pronouns contributes to cross-linguistically valid models of pronoun production and comprehension. In two sentence-continuation experiments, the present study investigated how linguistic use of space (modality-specific), antecedent grammatical role and verb implicit causality bias (modality-independent) affect American Sign Language (ASL) pronouns. Production of pronouns was determined by antecedent grammatical role, and overt pronouns were marginally more frequent for referents articulated in specific areas of signing space compared to neutral space. Signers interpreted pronouns using spatial information and, notably, verb bias, despite spatial co-reference supposedly removing the ambiguity that verb bias resolves. These findings demonstrate that ASL pronouns are subject to modality-independent factors, despite their use of space, and lend support to models of pronominal reference positing a production/comprehension asymmetry.

Key words: Pronouns, American Sign Language, implicit causality, biasesspatial localisation, pronoun production and comprehension

How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress

Sophie Kutscheid, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Department II, Phonetics, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

Adrian Leemann, Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Bettina Braun, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Abstract Listeners perceive high or rising pitch as stressed – at the word and sentence level (high-pitch bias). Since stressed syllables can also be low-pitched, this bias may lead to misinterpretations of word and sentence stress and thus slow down speech comprehension. We investigate the effect of immediate exposure with high- vs. low-pitched stressed syllables on the identification of word and sentence stress. Participants were exposed to utterances containing only high- vs. low-pitched stressed syllables. In experimental trials, they then heard either trisyllabic words with word stress on the second syllable (Experiment 1) or three-word-sentences with sentence stress on the second word (Experiment 2) and indicated the position of word/sentence stress. Stimuli were presented in three intonation conditions (high-pitched first, second, or third syllable/word). Both experiments endorsed the high-pitch bias, with an increase after high-pitch exposure. Our results suggest a speaker-independent re-weighting of acoustic cues to stress, which is driven by experience.

Key words: Experience, processing mechanism, stress perception, sentence stress, word stress, intonation, German

Age-related effects on lexical, but not syntactic, processes during sentence production

Sophie M. Hardy, Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Katrien Segaert, Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Linda Wheeldon, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

Abstract We investigated the effect of healthy ageing on the lexical and syntactic processes involved in sentence production. Young and older adults completed a semantic interference sentence production task: we manipulated whether the target picture and distractor word were semantically related or unrelated and whether they fell within the same phrase (“the watch and the clock/hippo move apart”) or different phrases (“the watch moves above the clock/hippo”). Both age groups were slower to initiate sentences containing a larger, compared to a smaller, initial phrase, indicating a similar phrasal scope of advanced planning. However, older adults displayed significantly larger semantic interference effects (slower to initiate sentences when the target picture and distractor word were related) than young adults, indicating an age- related increase in lexical competition. Thus, while syntactic planning is preserved with age, older speakers encounter problems managing the temporal co-activation of competing lexical items during sentence production.

Key words: Healthy ageing; sentence production; syntactic planning; lexical competition; picture-word interference

期刊简介

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience is an international peer-reviewed journal promoting integrated cognitive theoretical studies of language and its neural bases.

《语言、认知与神经科学》是一本国际同行评审期刊，旨在促进语言及其神经基础的综合认知理论研究。

The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of brain and language, aiming to integrate excellent cognitive science and neuroscience to answer key questions about the nature of language and cognition in the mind and the brain. It aims to engage researchers and practitioners alike in how to better understand cognitive language function, including:

Language cognition

Neuroscience

Brain and language

该期刊采用跨学科方法研究大脑和语言，旨在整合优秀的认知科学和神经科学研究，以回答有关语言本质和大脑和大脑认知的关键问题。它旨在让研究人员和从业人员更好地理解认知语言功能，包括：

语言认知

神经科学

大脑和语言

The journal publishes high-quality, theoretically-motivated cognitive behavioral studies of language function, and papers which integrate cognitive theoretical accounts of language with its neurobiological foundations.

该期刊发表高质量的、以理论为动机的语言功能认知行为研究，以及将语言的认知理论解释与其神经生物学基础相结合的论文。

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https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/plcp21

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