title: Effects of second language study of phonemic discrimination and auditory event-related potentials in adults.
abstract: This study was designed to investigate the effects of acquisition of a second language on auditory even-related brain potentials and discrimination of foreign language phonemes by 36 women (ages 18 to 47 years), and 25 men (ages 18 to 36 years) and of varying linguistic background, in response to synthetic versions of Japanese phonemes. Subjects were subsequently tested on discrimination between spoken Japanese phonemes. Analysis indicated that the men and women differed in phonological processing and in the way acquisition of the second language affected phonological processing.
authors.affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks 99775-6480, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Grubb
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Geist
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*