Transfer of statistical learning from speech perception to production generalizes to reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21640940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle D Huffaker, Kyle Huffaker (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author), Lori L Holt (0000-0002-8732-4977, The University of Texas at Austin), Nazbanou Nozari (0000-0002-2215-8533, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-9384 • E-ISSN: 1531-5320 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13423-026-02874-y |
| PMID | 41779270 |
| OpenAlex | W7133554151 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Past research has shown that short-term exposure to speech carrying certain acoustic statistics transfers robustly to speech production. However, all studies reporting such transfer have used auditory repetition tasks. Therefore, it is unclear whether perception-production transfer in the acoustic-phonetic domain extends to tasks without an auditory model to probe production. We answer this question in two experiments. Experiment 1 shows that people read aloud the words BEER and PEER differently after exposure to auditory samples of “beer” and “peer” drawn from a distribution of standard American English versus a distribution of slightly accented speech. Experiments 2A and 2B replicate this finding and show generalization to reading a new word pair (BEACH/PEACH) and a new nonword pair (BEETH/PEETH). Collectively, these results demonstrate that the perception-production transfer in the acoustic-phonetic domain extends beyond auditory repetition tasks to production tasks without an explicit auditory model, and that this transfer generalizes to new syllables
Auditory feedback · Generalization · Perception · Reading aloud · Speech perception · Speech production · Transfer of learning · Language Development and Disorders · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |