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- Previous research shows that individuals with dyslexia process speech differently, favoring allophonic features over phonemic ones, leading to less accurate perception of phonemic traits like voicing.
- The study examined voicing contrasts in 204 Spanish children, identifying how those with dyslexia compared to their peers in recognizing and discriminating various synthetic sounds based on voice onset time.
- Results indicated that children with dyslexia struggled with distinguishing phonemic pairs but had improved sensitivity in recognizing allophonic features for specific sound contrasts, suggesting a connection between their perception abilities and neural processing models.
Article Abstract
Introduction: Previous studies have evidenced a different mode of speech perception in dyslexia, characterized by the use of allophonic rather than phonemic units. People with dyslexia perceive phonemic features (such as voicing) less accurately than typical readers, but they perceive allophonic features (i.e., language-independent differences between speech sounds) more accurately.
Method: In this study, we investigated the perception of voicing contrasts in a sample of 204 Spanish children with or without dyslexia. Identification and discrimination data were collected for synthetic sounds varying along three different voice onset time (VOT) continua (ba/pa, de/te, and di/ti). Empirical data will be contrasted with a mathematical model of allophonic perception building up from neural oscillations and auditory temporal processing.
Results: Children with dyslexia exhibited a general deficit in categorical precision; that is, they discriminated among phonemically contrastive pairs (around 0-ms VOT) less accurately than did chronological age controls, irrespective of the stimulus continuum. Children with dyslexia also exhibited a higher sensitivity in the discrimination of allophonic features (around ±30-ms VOT), but only for the stimulus continuum that was based on a nonlexical contrast (ba/pa).
Conclusion: Fitting the neural network model to the data collected for this continuum suggests that allophonic perception is due to a deficit in "subharmonic coupling" between high-frequency oscillations. Relationships with "temporal sampling framework" theory are discussed.
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