Vocal athletes: Behavioural and brain bases for phonetic aptitude in monolingual and bilingual learners of a foreign language

Project Information

Vocal Athletes

Grant agreement ID: 273519

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2011

End date 31 May 2013

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 167 065,60

EU contribution € 167 065,60

Coordinated by

BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Spain

Objective

Many learners of a foreign language struggle to correctly pronounce newly-learned speech sounds so that they can be understood by native listeners. Yet many others achieve this with apparent ease. What is responsible for these large individual differences in phonetic aptitude? Are better speakers also better listeners? The aim of this proposal is to determine whether there is a link between skills in production and skills in perception in learners of a foreign language. A special focus of the research will be to compare bilingual with monolingual learners, because bilinguals have had more experience with linguistic variation than monolinguals, and therefore might have greater phonetic aptitude. Bridging traditional linguistic and newer cognitive neuroscience approaches, the proposed study will determine the behavioural and brain bases for phonetic production and perception abilities.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• humanities › languages and literature › general language studies
• natural sciences › biological sciences › neurobiology › cognitive neuroscience

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

• EU contribution: € 167 065,60
• Address: PASEO MIKELETEGI 69 2 ; 20009 San Sebastian ; Spain
• Region: Noreste › País Vasco › Gipuzkoa
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Total cost: No data