Language talent and brain activity

 Content: 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.