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The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. In a very broad sense, applied linguistics is understood?by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives.

The following topics?are included in the series:

• Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages
• Bilingual and multilingual education
• Language planning and language policy
• Literacy skills
• Second/foreign language pedagogy
• Translation and interpretation
• Language for specific purposes
• Discourse analysis
• Language testing and assessment
• Child language
• Language and gender
• Pragmatics and rhetorics
• Corpus analysis
• Critical pedagogies
• Research methodology in applied linguistics
• Language and technology
  

This comprehensive project has the objective of describing and assessing pronunciation talent with special focus on its psychological and neural correlates. The first part of this undertaking describes the extensive tests necessary to measure phonetic talent in its various dimensions, such as production and perception, the segmental and?suprasegmental levels of speech, and different utterance forms such as spontaneous speech, reading and imitation. Subjects are examined in their native language (German), a familiar second language (English) and, to a lesser degree, an unfamiliar language (Hindi). The project also investigates psychological and behavioral influences?such as empathy or motivation on pronunciation performance, as well as correlations with general linguistic aptitude. The described measures and correlations allow a?reliable classification of proficiency and talent level to be used in the selection of subjects for the neuroimaging studies in the second part of the project. These use?functional magnetic resonance imaging in order to observe differences in brain activity?between talented and untalented individuals during the performance of phonetic tasks (perception of phonetic differences, imitation, reading).

정보제공 :

Talent and proficiency in language / Matthias Jilka
Assessment of phonetic ability / Matthias Jilka
Cognitive aspects of language talent / Giuseppina Rota and Susanne Maria Reiterer
Personality and pronunciation talent / Xiaochen Hu and Susanne Maria Reiterer
Functional imaging of language competent brain areas / Wolfgang Grodd, Dirk Wildgruber and Vinod Kumar
Brain and language talent : a synopsis / Susanne Maria Reiterer
Foreign accent syndrome FAS : an incidental "speech talent" following acquired brain damage / Bettina Brendel and Hermann Ackermann
Musicality and phonetic language aptitude / Davide Nardo and Susanne Maria Reiterer
Sociolinguistic factors in language proficiency : phonetic convergence as a signature of pronunciation talent / Natalie Lewandowski
Segmental factors in language proficiency : coarticulatory resistance as a signature of pronunciation talent / Henrike Baumotte
Prosodic factors in language proficiency : intonational variation as a signature of pronunciation talent / Volha Anufryk
Direct brain feedback and language learning from the gifted / Giuseppina Rota
Beyond talent : a short language biography of Prof. Max Mangold / Grzegorz Dogil.