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Abstract | ||
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Two experiments investigated the mechanism by which listeners adjust their interpretation of accented speech that is similar to a regional dialect of American English. Only a subset of the vowels of English (the front vowels) were shifted during adaptation, which consisted of listening to a 20-min segment of the "Wizard of Oz." Compared to a baseline (unadapted) condition, listeners showed significant adaptation to the accented speech, as indexed by increased word judgments on a lexical decision task. Adaptation also generalized to test words that had not been presented in the accented passage but that contained the shifted vowels. A control experiment showed that the adaptation effect was specific to the direction of the shift in the vowel space and not to a general relaxation of the criterion for what constitutes a good exemplar of the accented vowel category. Taken together, these results provide evidence for a context-specific vowel adaptation mechanism that enables a listener to adjust to the dialect of a particular talker. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1080/03640210802035357 | COGNITIVE SCIENCE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
speech perception,perceptual adaptation,word recognition,accent,dialect | Pronunciation,Lexical decision task,Word recognition,Psychology,Active listening,Speech recognition,American English,North American English,Vowel,Speech perception,Linguistics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
32 | 3.0 | 0364-0213 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
21 | 3.21 | 1 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Maye | 1 | 21 | 3.21 |
| Richard N. Aslin | 2 | 83 | 17.77 |
| Michael K. Tanenhaus | 3 | 109 | 33.78 |