Discrimination of Native and Non-Native Vowel Contrasts in Bilingual Turkish-German and Monolingual German Children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP Component

Autor/inn/en	Rinker, Tanja; Alku, Paavo; Brosch, Sibylle; Kiefer, Markus
Titel	Discrimination of Native and Non-Native Vowel Contrasts in Bilingual Turkish-German and Monolingual German Children: Insight from the Mismatch Negativity ERP Component
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 113 (2010) 2, S.90-95 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.007
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Vowels; Monolingualism; Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; German; Language Enrichment; Reading Instruction; Bilingualism; Turkish; Young Children; Memory; Phonetics; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Deutscher; Leseunterricht; Bilingualismus; Türkisch; Frühe Kindheit; Gedächtnis; Phonetik; Fonetik; Deutschland
Abstract	The development of native-like memory traces for foreign phonemes can be measured by using the Mismatch Negativity (MMN), a component of the auditory event-related potential. Previous studies have shown that the MMN is sensitive to changes in neural organization depending on language experience. Here we measured the MMN response in 5-6 year-old monolingual German and bilingual Turkish-German kindergarten children growing up in Germany. MMN was investigated to a German vowel contrast and to a vowel contrast that exists in Turkish and in German. The results show that compared to a German control group, the MMN response is less robust in Turkish-German children to the German vowel contrast. The response to the contrast that exists in both languages does not differ between groups. Overall, the results suggest that the Turkish-German children have not yet fully acquired the German phonetic inventory despite living in Germany since birth and being immersed in a German-speaking environment. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10