Sentence examples for phonetic processing from inspiring English sources

And, regardless of background, children with lower general verbal ability and those who have difficulty with phonetic processing seem to struggle.

This pattern of electrophysiological and behavioral results supports the conclusion that early experience with phonetic contrasts of a language results in changes in neural representations in the auditory cortex that allow for more robust automatic, phonetic processing of native-language speech input.

Using integrated MEG/EEG and MRI data we found that, within a network identified by 40 Hz gamma phase locking, activation in the supramarginal gyrus associated with wordform representation influences phonetic processing in the posterior superior temporal gyrus during a period of time associated with lexical processing.

Our results suggest that naively processing rotated syllables in a non-speech mode results in phonetic processing without conscious awareness of the phonetic nature of the stimuli.

In combination with evidence of neural overlap between tool use and phonetic processing in left ventral premotor cortex [5], [54], this supports the argument [34] that Oldowan toolmaking may have provided a 'preadaptive' foundation for the enhanced cortical control of vocalization emphasized in many hypotheses of language evolution [37], [51], [55], [56], [57].

Over developmental time, then, children may first use visual speech cues to aid phonetic processing, and later to aid comprehension.

Additionally, the interstimulus interval (ISI) was varied as a control factor, 500 or 1,500 ms (see Werker & Tees, 1984, for a description of possible phonetic and phonemic processing levels associated with these ISIs).

The differential processing of phonetic and non-phonetic sounds was investigated in this study by applying a "sound-morphing" paradigm, where the presence of phonetic features were parametrically varied, creating a step-wise transition from a non-phonetic sound into a phonetic sound.

A common assumption is that phonetic sounds initiate unique processing in the superior temporal gyri and sulci (STG/STS).

It also lends support to the theory that parts of the brain are "dedicated" to the phonetic side of language processing, she says.

Specifically, processing of phonetic and lexical semantic information appears to be very limited in such circumstances, consistent with prior behavioral studies.