Does Voicing Affect Patterns of Transfer in Nonnative Cluster Learning?

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Hung-Shao; Buchwald, Adam
Titel	Does Voicing Affect Patterns of Transfer in Nonnative Cluster Learning?
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64 (2021) 6, S.2103-2120 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	North American English; Phonemes; Transfer of Training; Perceptual Motor Learning; Accuracy; Time; Adults; Generalization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Amerikanisches Englisch; Fonem; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Perceptual-motor learning; Sensumotorisches Lernen; Wahrnehmungsschulung; Zeit
Abstract	Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that speakers can learn novel speech sequences, although the content and specificity of the learned speech motor representations remain incompletely understood. We investigated these representations by examining transfer of learning in the context of nonnative consonant clusters. Specifically, we investigated whether American English speakers who learn to produce either voiced or voiceless stop-stop clusters (e.g., /gd/ or /kt/) exhibit transfer to the other voicing pattern. Method: Each participant (n = 34) was trained on disyllabic nonwords beginning with either voiced (/gd/, /db/, /gb/) or voiceless (/kt/, /kp/, /tp/) onset consonant clusters (e.g., /gdimu/, /ktaksnaem/) in a practice-based speech motor learning paradigm. All participants were tested on both voiced and voiceless clusters at baseline (prior to practice) and in two retention sessions (20 min and 2 days after practice). We compared changes in cluster accuracy and burst-to-burst duration between baseline and each retention session to evaluate learning (performance on the trained clusters) and transfer (performance on the untrained clusters). Results: Participants in both training conditions improved with respect to cluster accuracy and burst-to-burst duration for the clusters they practiced on. A bidirectional transfer pattern was found, such that participants also improved the cluster accuracy and burst-to-burst duration for the clusters with the other untrained voicing pattern. Post hoc analyses also revealed that improvement in the production of untrained stop-fricative clusters that originally were added as filler items. Conclusion: Our findings suggest the learned speech motor representations may encode the information about the coordination of oral articulators for stop-stop clusters independently from information about the coordination of oral and laryngeal articulators. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01