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Rama, Pia; Sirri, Louah; Serres, Josette – Brain and Language, 2013
Our aim was to investigate whether developing language system, as measured by a priming task for spoken words, is organized by semantic categories. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a priming task for spoken words in 18- and 24-month-old monolingual French learning children. Spoken word pairs were either semantically related…
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
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Brunelliere, Angele; Dufour, Sophie; Nguyen, Noel – Brain and Language, 2011
Using the mismatch negativity (MMN) response, we examined how Standard French and Southern French speakers access the meaning of words ending in /e/ or /[epsilon]/ vowels which are contrastive in Standard French but not in Southern French. In Standard French speakers, there was a significant difference in the amplitude of the brain response after…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Semantics, Word Recognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions