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Roll, Mikael; Lindgren, Magnus; Alter, Kai; Horne, Merle – Brain and Language, 2012
The phonological trace of perceived words starts fading away in short-term memory after a few seconds. Spoken utterances are usually 2-3 s long, possibly to allow the listener to parse the words into coherent prosodic phrases while they still have a clear representation. Results from this brain potential study suggest that even during silent…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Short Term Memory, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
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Friederici, Angela D.; Alter, Kai – Brain and Language, 2004
Spoken language comprehension requires the coordination of different subprocesses in time. After the initial acoustic analysis the system has to extract segmental information such as phonemes, syntactic elements and lexical-semantic elements as well as suprasegmental information such as accentuation and intonational phrases, i.e., prosody.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Syntax