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Language Comprehension in Accented Speech

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I will present a series of experiments aiming to define h ow language comprehension is modulated when a native listener is facing a non-native speaker. In the project, we explored this question regardin g different fundamental aspects of sentence comprehension: syntactic, se mantic and pragmatic processing. Regarding syntactic processing, we show ed that the way the brain reacts to grammatical errors depends on the li nguistic status of the speaker, as well as on the frequency of errors in real life. Regarding the semantic level, we showed that processing of d ialectal synonyms, cognates, and semantic violations differ when listeni ng to native and non-native speakers, and we also revealed that anticipa tory processes are affected by the speaker’s accent. Finally, regarding pragmatics, we showed that ironic statements are processed differently w hen uttered by a native or non-native speaker. In its whole, this projec t provides important advances on our knowledge on sentence/discourse com prehension. The results we obtained are relevant at the pragmatic level, providing a better understanding on how native listeners manage to comp rehend foreign speakers, and at the theoretical level, showing how sente nce comprehension is recalibrated on-line depending on external cues suc h as the speaker’s accent.

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