The Role of Variation in the Perception of Accented Speech

Autor/in	Sumner, Meghan
Titel	The Role of Variation in the Perception of Accented Speech
Quelle	In: Cognition, 119 (2011) 1, S.131-136 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.018
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Auditory Perception; Native Speakers; Speech Communication; Observation; Cognitive Mapping; Models; Learning; English; Second Language Learning; French; Schemata (Cognition) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Muttersprachler; Beobachtung; Analogiemodell; Lernen; English language; Englisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Französisch; Cognition; Schema; Kognition
Abstract	Phonetic variation has been considered a barrier that listeners must overcome in speech perception, but has been proved beneficial in category learning. In this paper, I show that listeners use within-speaker variation to accommodate gross categorical variation. Within the perceptual learning paradigm, listeners are exposed to p-initial words in English produced by a native speaker of French. Critically, listeners are trained on these words with either invariant or highly-variable VOTs. While a gross boundary shift is made for participants exposed to the variable VOTs, no such shift is observed after exposure to the invariant stimuli. These data suggest that increasing variation improves the mapping of perceptually mismatched stimuli. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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