Language Talent and Brain Activity /

Language Talent and Brain Activity / / ed. by Grzegorz Dogil, Susanne Maria Reiterer.

This comprehensive project has the objective of describing and assessing pronunciation talent with special focus on its psychological and neural correlates. The first part of this undertaking describes the extensive tests necessary to measure phonetic talent in its various dimensions, such as produc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Ackermann, Hermann,
Anufryk, Volha,
Baumotte, Henrike,
Brendel, Bettina,
Dogil, Grzegorz,
Grodd, Wolfgang,
Hu, Xiaochen,
Jilka, Matthias,
Kumar, Vinod,
Lewandowski, Natalie,
Nardo, Davide,
Reiterer, Susanne Maria,
Rota, Giuseppina,
Wildgruber, Dirk,
HerausgeberIn:
Dogil, Grzegorz,
Reiterer, Susanne Maria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Short portraits of the authors
  • Talent and proficiency in language
  • Assessment of phonetic ability
  • Cognitive aspects of pronunciation talent
  • Personality and pronunciation talent in second language acquisition
  • Functional imaging of language competentbrain areas
  • Brain and language talent: a synopsis
  • Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS): An incidental “speech talent” following acquired brain damage?
  • Musicality and phonetic language aptitude
  • Sociolinguistic factors in language proficiency: phonetic convergence as a signature of pronunciation talent.
  • Segmental factors in language proficiency: Coarticulatory resistance as a signature of pronunciation talent
  • Prosodic factors in language proficiency: intonational variation as a signature of pronunciation talent
  • Direct brain feedback and language learning from the gifted
  • Beyond talent: a short language biography of Prof. Max Mangold
  • Backmatter

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