Pre-attentive phonotactic processing

Antragsteller Professor Dr. Thomas Jacobsen
Fachliche Zuordnung Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Experimentelle Linguistik, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen
Förderung Förderung von 2006 bis 2014
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 25227870
 

Projektbeschreibung

This research program connects cognitive neuroscience with linguistic phonological theory. It applies cognitive neuroscientific investigation of event-related potentials (ERP), using mismatch negativitity (MMN) paradigms, to phonotactic restrictions that stem from the phonological constraint of Dorsal Fricative Assimilation in German. Special attention is given to the question of the (psychologically) pre-attentive status of phonotactic processing, which meets with the (linguistic) expectation that linguistic competence is put to use without a conscious effort. In cross-linguistic experimental protocols using identical stimulation for both language groups, the effects of Dorsal Fricative Assimilation in speakers of Standard German are investigated in comparison with speakers of Swiss German, with no active constraint of Dorsal Fricative Assimilation. The experiments investigate the effects of the phonological constraint in pre-attentive processing, the relevance of lexical access for these effects, and the occurrence of frequency effects in this connection.
DFG-Verfahren Schwerpunktprogramme
Teilprojekt zu SPP 1234:  Sprachlautliche Kompetenz: Zwischen Grammatik, Signalverarbeitung und neuronaler Aktivität
Beteiligte Person Professor Hubert Truckenbrodt, Ph.D.