![]() ![]() They measured three types of spikes associated with neuronal language processing, P200, N400 and P600(Romero-Rivas et al. Now imagine that same concept, but for the brain. ![]() You know the one when the person is in the hospital and the machine is going *beep, beep* and the little spikes show the heart beating. Just imagine the spiking you see from a EKG on television. 2015 showing EEG spikingĪnyway, neural recordings were taken by an electroencephalogram or EEG for short. There are those semantic errors.įigure 2 from Romero-Rivas et al. Maybe say poulet Y fromage instead of poulet ET fromage. I mean, I’m pretty sure I sometimes mix up some Spanish in my French, add some SIs when there should be some OUIs. I guess this whole set up is kind of similar to my struggles here in Paris. These sentences were recorded by the non-native speakers and played back to the native Spanish speaking participants, at will and in a soundproof room (Romero-Rivas et al. This semantic error is a mix up in the meaning of the words in the sentence. Each sentence was repeated 4 times, a standard sentence spoken by a native Spanish speaker, a standard sentence spoken by a non-native Spanish speaker, a sentence with a semantic error spoken by a native Spanish speaker and a sentence with a semantic error spoken by a non-native speaker. ![]() The non-native Spanish speakers were native speakers of Greek, Japanese, Italian and French. Each person had 208 sentences played to them from both native Spanish speakers, and non-native Spanish speakers. This was done so that the majority of them spoke in the same dialect. So the set up for the experiment went a little something like this, the researchers recruited 20 native Spanish speakers (I guess my mom was right!), 12 women and 8 men, with the majority being from Catalonia, Spain. 2015 showing rating on a scale of 1 to 5 of accent strength “Processing changes when listening to foreign accented speech,” focused on two main issues about processing language from a non-native speaker: first, whether fast adaptation in the brain occur at the acoustic and/or lexical level during speech comprehension and whether semantic processing in the brain is affected after listeners have gotten better at comprehending foreign accented speech.įigure 1 from Romero-Rivas et al. Yet, it is so hard for native speakers of a language to comprehend non-native speakers, even when said non-native speaker has had practice in enunciating the accent.Ī 2015 study done by Romero-Rivas et al. Going from your home country to a completely different place, with an entirely different language, causes some people to forget that when speaking another language, they too have an accent. Although, maybe it’s possible… could it be that I have an accent? Is my accent so thick that they cannot understand that when I say “poulet et fromage” I mean chicken and cheese? Now that I think about it, that’s probably why they proceed to giggle at my attempts at French and then start to speak to me in English. I would think, since I’m pronouncing the words just like the native Parisians, that they would understand me perfectly. As I travel around the city, trying to learn new words and phrases, it becomes increasingly apparent that when I speak the little French I do know, nobody understands me. (Oh mom, why did you not let me learn?), I tend to think back on this time in my life. Now that I’m in Paris, with little to no experience in speaking French. And so, I proceeded to take Spanish, for 5 years. Well, there goes my dream of becoming fluent in the language of my people. “No Kayleigh, Spanish will be more practical in America, especially if you want to become a doctor.” It’s part of my blood! I was going to learn the language of my people, until I told my mom the grand plan. Finally, after all this time, I was going to be able to learn the language I’d always wanted. These were some of the first words I told my mom after we moved from California to Georgia when I was in 8th grade. “Mom! They offer French here! I want to take French!” ![]()
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