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In:Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 351–364

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Chapter 24
Dialects and neuroscience

A first critical review

 | University of Salento
Published online: 19 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.24gri
Abstract
Dialectal variation has been constanly at the core of linguistic investigation. On the base of the few neurophysiological studies that explored dialectal data, this article examines if and how dialectal variation may contribute to the advancing of the neurobiology of language. Evidence suggest that the neural investigation of allophonic variation generated by phonological rules is very useful for the progress of the neurobiology of language. Also, all kinds of parametric variations characterizing dialects are well suited to this aim. Finally, I outline some general and detailed questions that need to be addressed making use of a new methodology: the oscillatory rhythms approach.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Investigating the auditory brain: Techniques and methods
  • 3.Dialect in the brain
    • 3.1Neurophysiology of tonal dialects
    • 3.2Auditory processing and dialect variation
    • 3.3Allophonic variation within dialects
  • 4.Discussion and further remarks
  • Acknowledgment
  • Note
  • References
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