Language talent and brain activity
By: edited by Grzegorz Dogil, Susanne Maria Reiterer.
Contributors: Dogil, Grzegorz.; Reiterer, Susanne Maria, 1969-
Series: Trends in applied linguistics -- 1; Trends in applied linguistics -- 1.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9783110205183
Subjects: Second language acquisition -- Physiological aspects; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Talent and proficiency in language / Matthias Jilka; title: Assessment of phonetic ability / Matthias Jilka; title: Cognitive aspects of language talent / Giuseppina Rota and Susanne Maria Reiterer; title: Personality and pronunciation talent / Xiaochen Hu and Susanne Maria Reiterer; title: Functional imaging of language competent brain areas / Wolfgang Grodd, Dirk Wildgruber and Vinod Kumar; title: Brain and language talent : a synopsis / Susanne Maria Reiterer; title: Foreign accent syndrome FAS : an incidental "speech talent" following acquired brain damage / Bettina Brendel and Hermann Ackermann; title: Musicality and phonetic language aptitude / Davide Nardo and Susanne Maria Reiterer; title: Sociolinguistic factors in language proficiency : phonetic convergence as a signature of pronunciation talent / Natalie Lewandowski; title: Segmental factors in language proficiency : coarticulatory resistance as a signature of pronunciation talent / Henrike Baumotte; title: Prosodic factors in language proficiency : intonational variation as a signature of pronunciation talent / Volha Anufryk; title: Direct brain feedback and language learning from the gifted / Giuseppina Rota; title: Beyond talent : a short language biography of Prof. Max Mangold / Grzegorz Dogil.