The effect of the syllable hierarchy on language areas (a), speech processing areas (sensorimotor and lexical, b) and other areas (c).

Note. For the hypothesized language regions (a), significance threshold is p<.05 (corrected); for the nonlinguistic speech regions (b), p<.001 (uncorrected); for all other regions (c), p<.0001 (uncorrected). Cluster extent for language areas is calculated at the .01 significance levels; all other clusters are calculated at the .001 level. All subthresholding trends are listed in italic font, for the purpose of showing the sign/direction of the activations. BA = Brodmann area; L = left hemisphere; R = Right Hemisphere; P = Posterior; A = Anterior, S = Superior; M = Middle; TMA  =  Transverse Temporal Gyrus; PC  =  Postcentral Gyrus; SMA  =  Supplementary Motor Area; pSTG  =  posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus; SMG  =  Supra Marginal Gyrus; *−p<.01; **−p<.001; ***−p<.0001.