The role of abstraction in non-native speech perception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4579265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bożena Pająk (0000-0001-6767-3590, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Roger Levy (0000-0002-4493-8864, University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Pages | 147-160 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Phonetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-4470 • E-ISSN: 1095-8576 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.07.001 |
| PMID | 25197153 |
| PMCID | PMC4153394 |
| OpenAlex | W2141701978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 89 |
The end-result of perceptual reorganization in infancy is currently viewed as a reconfigured perceptual space, “warped” around native-language phonetic categories, which then acts as a direct perceptual filter on any non-native sounds: naïve-listener discrimination of non-native-sounds is determined by their mapping onto native-language phonetic categories that are acoustically/articulatorily most similar. We report results that suggest another factor in non-native speech perception: some perceptual sensitivities cannot be attributed to listeners' warped perceptual space alone, but rather to enhanced general sensitivity along phonetic dimensions that the listeners' native language employs to distinguish between categories. Specifically, we show that the knowledge of a language with short and long vowel categories leads to enhanced discrimination of non-native consonant length contrasts. We argue that these results support a view of perceptual reorganization as the consequence of learners' hierarchical inductive inferences about the structure of the language's sound system: infants not only acquire the specific phonetic category inventory, but also draw higher-order generalizations over the set of those categories, such as the overall informativity of phonetic dimensions for sound categorization. Non-native sound perception is then also determined by sensitivities that emerge from these generalizations, rather than only by mappings of non-native sounds onto native-language phonetic categories
Abstraction · Categorization · Consonant · First language · Linguistics · Perception · Phonetics · Space (punctuation) · Speech perception · Speech recognition · Vowel · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
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