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      Phonological grammar shapes the auditory cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

      The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
      Acoustic Stimulation, methods, Adult, Auditory Cortex, anatomy & histology, physiology, Humans, Language, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phonetics, Verbal Behavior
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          Languages differ depending on the set of basic sounds they use (the inventory of consonants and vowels) and on the way in which these sounds can be combined to make up words and phrases (phonological grammar). Previous research has shown that our inventory of consonants and vowels affects the way in which our brains decode foreign sounds (Goto, 1971; Näätänen et al., 1997; Kuhl, 2000). Here, we show that phonological grammar has an equally potent effect. We build on previous research, which shows that stimuli that are phonologically ungrammatical are assimilated to the closest grammatical form in the language (Dupoux et al., 1999). In a cross-linguistic design using French and Japanese participants and a fast event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm, we show that phonological grammar involves the left superior temporal and the left anterior supramarginal gyri, two regions previously associated with the processing of human vocal sounds.

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          10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-29-09541.2003

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          Acoustic Stimulation,methods,Adult,Auditory Cortex,anatomy & histology,physiology,Humans,Language,Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Phonetics,Verbal Behavior

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