Language talent and brain activity / edited by Grzegorz Dogil, Susanne Maria Reiterer.

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Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.
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Series:Trends in applied linguistics ; 1.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Talent and proficiency in language / Matthias Jilka
  • Assessment of phonetic ability / Matthias Jilka
  • Cognitive aspects of language talent / Giuseppina Rota and Susanne Maria Reiterer
  • Personality and pronunciation talent / Xiaochen Hu and Susanne Maria Reiterer
  • Functional imaging of language competent brain areas / Wolfgang Grodd, Dirk Wildgruber and Vinod Kumar
  • Brain and language talent : a synopsis / Susanne Maria Reiterer
  • Foreign accent syndrome FAS : an incidental "speech talent" following acquired brain damage / Bettina Brendel and Hermann Ackermann
  • Musicality and phonetic language aptitude / Davide Nardo and Susanne Maria Reiterer
  • Sociolinguistic factors in language proficiency : phonetic convergence as a signature of pronunciation talent / Natalie Lewandowski
  • Segmental factors in language proficiency : coarticulatory resistance as a signature of pronunciation talent / Henrike Baumotte
  • Prosodic factors in language proficiency : intonational variation as a signature of pronunciation talent / Volha Anufryk
  • Direct brain feedback and language learning from the gifted / Giuseppina Rota
  • Beyond talent : a short language biography of Prof. Max Mangold / Grzegorz Dogil.