The Language-Specificity of Phonetic Adaptation to Talkers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antony Cutler (0000-0002-4203-0692, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia), L Ann Burchfield (0000-0002-7295-8694, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia), Maria Antoniou (0000-0001-7735-573X, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 373-400 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00238309231214244 |
| PMID | 38054422 |
| OpenAlex | W4389397806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
Listeners adapt efficiently to new talkers by using lexical knowledge to resolve perceptual uncertainty. This adaptation has been widely observed, both in first (L1) and in second languages (L2). Here, adaptation was tested in both the L1 and L2 of speakers of Mandarin and English, two very dissimilar languages. A sound midway between /f/ and /s/ replacing either /f/ or /s/ in Mandarin words presented for lexical decision (e.g., bu4fa3 “illegal”; kuan1song1 “loose”) prompted the expected adaptation; it induced an expanded /f/ category in phoneme categorization when it had replaced /f/, but an expanded /s/ category when it had replaced /s/. Both L1 listeners and English-native listeners with L2 Mandarin showed this effect. In English, however (with e.g., traffic; insane), we observed adaptation in L1 but not in L2; Mandarin-native listeners, despite scoring highly in the English lexical decision training, did not adapt their category boundaries for /f/ and /s/. Whether the ambiguous sound appeared syllable-initially (as in Mandarin phonology) versus word-finally (providing more word identity information) made no difference. Perceptual learning for talker adaptation is language-specific in that successful lexically guided adaptation in one language does not guarantee adaptation in other known languages; the enabling conditions for adaptation may be multiple and diverse
Adaptation (eye · Categorization · Cognition · Lexical decision task · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Perception · Phonology · Syllable · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and Audio Processing
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Patterns of Sounds
The Weckud Wetch of the Wast
Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech
Perceptual learning in speech
Recognizing Spoken Words
Shortlist
An Analysis of Perceptual Confusions Among Some English Consonants
Talker-specific learning in speech perception
The TRACE model of speech perception
Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
Nonnative and second-language speech perception
Perceptual learning for speech
Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Audiovisual and lexical cues do not additively enhance perceptual adaptation
The phoneme
The Dynamic Nature of Speech Perception
Differences in Inventory Size Affect the Location but not the Precision of Tongue Positioning in Vowel Production
Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals' productions in both L1 and L2
Two ways to listen
Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |