The Weckud Wetch of the Wast: Lexical Adaptation to a Novel Accent

Autor/inn/en	Maye, Jessica; Aslin, Richard N.; Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Titel	The Weckud Wetch of the Wast: Lexical Adaptation to a Novel Accent
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 32 (2008) 3, S.543-562 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
Schlagwörter	Pronunciation; Dialects; Vowels; North American English; Undergraduate Students; Auditory Perception; Listening Comprehension; Language Processing; Word Recognition; Experiments; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aussprache; Dialect; Dialekt; Amerikanisches Englisch; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Hörverständnis; Sprachverarbeitung; Worterkennung; Erprobung
Abstract	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. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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