Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages 14-21Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.009
Keywords
Word accent; Lexical tone; Morphology; Grammar; ERP; fMRI; Superior temporal gyrus; Inferior frontal gyrus
Funding
- Swedish Research Council [2011-2284]
- Crafoord Foundation [2011-0624]
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2014.0139]
- Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation [2014.0039]
- Lundbeck Foundation [R140-2013-12951] Funding Source: researchfish
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Previous studies distinguish between right hemisphere-dominant processing of prosodic/tonal information and left-hemispheric modulation of grammatical information as well as lexical tones. Swedish word accents offer a prime testing ground to better understand this division. Although similar to lexical tones, word accents are determined by words' morphosyntactic structure, which enables listeners to use the tone at the beginning of a word to predict its grammatical ending. We recorded electrophysiological and hemodynamic brain responses to words where stem tones matched or mismatched inflectional suffixes. Tones produced brain potential effects after 136 ms, correlating with subject variability in average BOLD in left primary auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus, and inferior frontal gyrus. Invalidly cued suffixes activated the left inferior parietal lobe, arguably reflecting increased processing cost of their meaning. Thus, interaction of word accent tones with grammatical morphology yielded a rapid neural response correlating in subject variability with activations in predominantly left-hemispheric brain areas. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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