Low-frequency cortical responses to natural speech reflect probabilistic phonotactics.

Humans comprehend speech despite the various challenges such as mispronunciation and noisy environments. Our auditory system is robust to these thanks to the integration of the sensory input with prior knowledge and expectations built on language-specific regularities. One such regularity regards the permissible phoneme sequences, which determine the likelihood that a word belongs to a given language (phonotactic probability; "blick" is more likely to be an English word than "bnick").

Perceptual deletion and asymmetric lexical access in second language learners.

French listeners have difficulty perceiving /h/, and as L2 speakers they frequently omit /h/ in English words. This study investigated their processing of English /h/-initial words. Participants performed a lexical decision task on words and nonwords, where the nonwords were created from /h/-initial and vowel-initial words by removing or adding /h/, respectively.

[Pathomorphogenesis of the liver, kidneys, and lungs in patients with icteric leptospirosis].

Postmortem and biopsies pathomorphological studies of the liver, kidneys and lungs of patients with leptospirosis were carried out. The content of myoglobin in these organs, blood and urine was investigated. Dystrophy and infiltration of the liver in leptospirosis are moderate and do not correlate with the intensity of icterus.