TY - JOUR AU - Truckenbrodt, Hubert AU - Steinberg, Johanna AU - Jacobsen, Thomas K. AU - Jacobsen, Thomas PY - 2014 M3 - Original Research TI - Evidence for the role of German final devoicing in pre-attentive speech processing: a mismatch negativity study JO - Frontiers in Psychology UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01317 VL - 5 SN - 1664-1078 N2 - Results of a mismatch negativity experiment are reported in which the pre-attentive relevance of the German phonological alternation of final devoicing (FD) is shown in two ways. The experiment employs pseudowords. (1) A deviant [vus] paired with standard /vuzə/ did not show a mismatch effect for the voicing change in /z/ versus [s] because the two can be related by FD. When standard and deviant were reversed, the two could not be related by FD and a mismatch effect for the voicing difference occurred. (2) An ill-formed deviant that violates FD, *[vuz], triggered mismatch effects that were plausibly attributed to its ill-formedness. The results show that a syllable-related process like FD is already taken into account by the processing system in early pre-attentive processing. ER -