title: MMN to natural Arabic CV syllables: 2 - cross language study.
abstract: Mismatch negativity response parameters; latency, amplitude, and duration - to natural Arabic and natural English CV syllables - were obtained from normal-hearing adult Egyptians, in two experiments. In the first experiment, MMN was obtained in response to English CV syllable paradigms (Ba-Wa) and (Ga-Da) differing in formant duration and start of third formant, respectively. In the second experiment, MMN response for Arabic paradigm (Baa-Waa), English paradigm (Ba-Wa), and for Arabic-English paradigm (Waa-Wa) was obtained. Results revealed that the three levels of speech representation; acoustic, phonetic and phonologic could be probed preattentatively by MMN. The acoustic properties of speech signal are processed earlier than the phonetic and phonologic properties.
authors.affiliation: Mansoura General Hospital, Audiology unit, Mansoura, Egypt. m.samir@medscape.com
authors.forename: M Samir
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Zeftawi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D004534:Egypt; D004594:Electrophysiology; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*