Abstraction-based Efficiency in the Lexicon

Cutler, Anne

doi:10.1515/labphon.2010.016

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“…Specifically, the facilitatory effect of indexical information was only observed during a task involving recognition memory but not a task which involved lexical access, i.e., word identification. This clear distinction in the emergence of talker familiarity effects in the tasks with and without lexical access, together with results from other recent studies (Jesse et al, 2007;Kittredge et al, 2006;Lee & Zhang, 2015), seems to suggest that indexical information is not stored as an integral part of the lexical representations, which is in line with theories suggesting the existence of an episodic memory system, distinct from the mental lexicon but linked to a linguistically abstract lexical or prelexical level, where indexical information is stored (Cutler, 2010a).…”

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“…Different studies (see, e.g., Cutler (2010a) and McLennan and Luce (2005)) expressed the need for a hybrid model of speech perception activating and exploiting both abstract representations and more specific form-based representations. Several attempts have been made in formulating such a hybrid theory (e.g., Cutler (2010a), Goldinger (2007), Kleinschmidt and Jaeger (2015), Luce et al (2003), andMcQueen et al (2006)).…”

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Talker-familiarity benefit in non-native recognition memory and word identification: The role of listening conditions and proficiency

Drozdova

Hout

Scharenborg

2019

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Native listeners benefit from talker familiarity in recognition memory and word identification, especially in adverse listening conditions. The present study addresses the talker familiarity benefit in non-native listening, and the role of listening conditions and listeners' lexical proficiency in the emergence of this benefit. Dutch non-native listeners of English were trained to identify four English talkers over 4 days. Talker familiarity benefit in recognition memory was investigated using a recognition memory task with "old" and "new" words produced by familiar and unfamiliar talkers presented either in the clear or in noise. Talker familiarity benefit in word identification was investigated by comparing non-native listeners' performances on the first and the last day in identifying words in different noise levels, produced by either a trained (included in the voice recognition training) or by an untrained talker (not included in the voice recognition training). Non-native listeners demonstrated a talker familiarity benefit in recognition memory, which was modulated by listening conditions and proficiency in the non-native language. No talker familiarity benefit was found in word identification. These results suggest that, similar to native listening, both linguistic and indexical (talker-specific) information influence non-native speech perception. However, this is dependent on the task and type of speech recognition process involved.

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Talker-familiarity benefit in non-native recognition memory and word identification: The role of listening conditions and proficiency

Drozdova

Hout

Scharenborg

2019

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Using perceptual learning data to infer the types of levels and abstractions necessary for speech perception is not novel to this dissertation. This same approach has already been taken by McQueen et al (2006); Cutler (2010); Cutler, Eisner, McQueen, and Norris (2010). One of the main points in all of these papers is that perceptual learning generalizes to untrained items (such as novel words), and that this type of generalization requires sub-lexical abstraction (such as phoneme units).…”

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“…perceptual learning are critical to our understanding of the types of abstract units and the levels and pathways of processing in the speech perception system. Previous perceptual learning studies have generalization across factors like talker and phoneme and have used this to argue in favor of abstract units, suggesting that if listeners generalize a boundary shift along a b/p continuum to a d/t continuum as well, they must have adjusted the mappings between VOT and voicing features rather than specific phonemes(McQueen et al, 2006;Cutler, 2010;Cutler et al, 2010). Tests of specificity, however, provide a stronger test of abstraction, in that phoneme-or talker-specific learning should not be possible if speech perception is mediated by units of this sort.…”

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Perceptual learning in speech reveals pathways of processing

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“…A core debate over perception of spoken words is how abstract knowledge about their phonological composition [1] and episodic memory for specific tokens of a word interact to support flexible word recognition [2,3]. Listeners familiarized to words spoken with "odd" variants of one vowel/contrast generalize the deviant variants to recognition of untrained words by the same speaker that contain those vowels [4][5][6].…”

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From newcastle MOUTH to aussie ears: australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for newcastle UK vowels

Best¹,

Shaw²,

Docherty³

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Interspeech 2015

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To probe how episodic and abstract processes contribute to flexible perception of phonetically variable speech, we evaluated Australian (Aus) listeners' perception of Aus-accented vowels versus those of an unfamiliar accent: Newcastle UK (Ncl). Aus listeners first heard a round-robin story told by multiple talkers of Aus or Ncl, then categorized multi-talker tokens of 20 vowels in nonce words spoken in the Aus or Ncl accent. Categorization was variable even across Aus nonce vowels (M accuracy ranged from 21-80%). Perceptual assimilation of Ncl vowels (Aus passage/Ncl nonce) was diverse: Some were categorized very much like the corresponding Aus vowel. Some showed within-category differentiation from Aus; others were heard as a different vowel altogether. Perception of some Ncl vowels changed after Ncl passage exposure, including both positive adaptation (improved categorization: e.g., MOUTH, FLEECE, TRAP) and negative shifts (increased differentiation from the corresponding Aus vowel: e.g., NURSE, FOOT). Assimilation and adaptation patterns were largely consistent with similarities and dissimilarities between the Aus and Ncl vowel spaces. Implications of the results for episodic and abstract contributions to perceptual flexibility are discussed. We also consider the possibility that listeners perceptually adjust to other-accent vowels as a system, rather than treating each vowel as an independent entity.

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Abstraction-based Efficiency in the Lexicon

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Talker-familiarity benefit in non-native recognition memory and word identification: The role of listening conditions and proficiency

Talker-familiarity benefit in non-native recognition memory and word identification: The role of listening conditions and proficiency

Perceptual learning in speech reveals pathways of processing

From newcastle MOUTH to aussie ears: australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for newcastle UK vowels

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