Using event-related brain potentials to assess perceptibility: The case of French speakers and English [h]

French speaking learners of English encounter persistent difficulty acquiring English [h], thus confusing words like eat and heat in both production and perception. We assess the hypothesis that the acoustic properties of [h] may render detection of this segment in the speech stream insufficiently r...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jennifer Mah, Heather Goad, Karsten Steinhauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ERP
MMN
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01469/full