Perceptual adaptation to segmental and syllabic reductions in continuous spoken Dutch

Poellmann, Katja; Bosker, Hans R.; McQueen, James M.; Mitterer, Holger

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2014.06.004

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“…Poellmann, Bosker, McQueen, and Mitterer (2014) tested whether learning can also take place for syllables, by presenting listeners with a speaker who routinely reduced the Dutch prefix ver-[fər] to [f]. Repeated exposure to words with this reduced prefix allowed listeners to recognize new words with the same reduction more efficiently than listeners from a control group who heard the same words in an unreduced form.…”

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Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition

Mitterer

Reinisch

McQueen

2018

Journal of Memory and Language

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•Pre-lexical representations in speech perception were probed with selective adaptation • Allophonic and phoneme overlap between adaptors and test stimuli were varied • Only allophonic overlap led to selective adaptation • Results argue for the use of allophones and not phonemes in speech perceptionWhat are the phonological representations that listeners use to map information about the segmental content of speech onto the mental lexicon during spoken-word recognition? Recent evidence from perceptual-learning paradigms seems to support (context-dependent) allophones as the basic representational units in spoken-word recognition. But recent evidence from a selective-adaptation paradigm seems to suggest that context-independent phonemes also play a role. We present three experiments using selective adaptation that constitute strong tests of these representational hypotheses.In Experiment 1, we tested generalization of selective adaptation using different allophones of Dutch /r/ and /l/ -a case where generalization has not been found with perceptual learning. In Experiments 2 and 3, we tested generalization of selective adaptation using German back fricatives in which allophonic and phonemic identity were varied orthogonally. In all three experiments, selective adaptation was observed only if adaptors and test stimuli shared allophones. Phonemic identity, in contrast, was neither necessary nor sufficient for generalization of selective adaptation to occur. These findings and other recent data using the perceptuallearning paradigm suggest that pre-lexical processing during spoken-word recognition is based on allophones, and not on context-independent phonemes.

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Section: Why or Why Not Phonemesmentioning

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Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition

Mitterer

Reinisch

McQueen

2018

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Research has mostly focused on the first kind of learning—the acquisition of novel information/knowledge. However, there is also evidence for significant changes in processing over development (Fernald, Pinto, Swingley, Weinberg, & McRoberts, 1998; Marchman & Fernald, 2008; Rigler et al, 2015; Swingley et al, 1999) and aging (Mattys & Scharenborg, 2014; Ramscar, Hendrix, Shaoul, Milin, & Baayen, 2014), and also as a result of learning (Magnuson, Tanenhaus, Aslin, & Dahan, 2003) and adaptation to specific properties of the input, for example, accented speech (Poellmann, Bosker, McQueen, & Mitterer, 2014; Witteman, Weber, & McQueen, 2010; Witteman, Bardhan, Weber, & McQueen, 2015). …”

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Training alters the resolution of lexical interference: Evidence for plasticity of competition and inhibition.

Kapnoula¹,

McMurray²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Language learning is generally described as a problem of acquiring new information (e.g., new words). However, equally important are changes in how the system processes known information. For example, a wealth of studies has suggested dramatic changes over development in how efficiently children recognize familiar words, but it is unknown what kind of experience-dependent mechanisms of plasticity give rise to such changes in real-time processing. We examined the plasticity of the language processing system by testing whether a fundamental aspect of spoken word recognition, lexical interference, can be altered by experience. Adult participants were trained on a set of familiar words over a series of 4 tasks. In the high-competition (HC) condition, tasks were designed to encourage coactivation of similar words (e.g., net and neck) and to require listeners to resolve this competition. Tasks were similar in the low-competition (LC) condition, but did not enhance this competition. Immediately after training, interlexical interference was tested using a visual world paradigm task. Participants in the HC group resolved interference to a fuller degree than those in the LC group, demonstrating that experience can shape the way competition between words is resolved. TRACE simulations showed that the observed late differences in the pattern of interference resolution can be attributed to differences in the strength of lexical inhibition. These findings inform cognitive models in many domains that involve competition/interference processes, and suggest an experience-dependent mechanism of plasticity that may underlie longer term changes in processing efficiency associated with both typical and atypical development.

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“…Such ambiguities in the speech signal have been documented in multiple corpus and acoustic-phonetic studies (Ernestus & Warner, 2011;Johnson, 2004;Kohler, 1998Kohler, , 2006Niebuhr & Kohler, 2011;Schuppler, Ernestus, Scharenborg, & Boves, 2011). The existence of such varied phonetic ambiguities greatly increases the set of meanings and structures that might be entertained in lexical search (e.g., Brouwer, Mitterer & Huettig, 2012;Poellmann, Bosker, McQueen, & Mitterer, 2014). Further, semantic and/or syntactic context are not guaranteed to sufficiently narrow down the set of candidate interpretations (cf.…”

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Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate influences perception of prosodically weak syllables

Baese‐Berk

Dilley

Henry

et al. 2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Listeners resolve ambiguities in speech perception using multiple sources, including non-local or distal speech rate (i.e., the speech rate of material surrounding a particular region). The ability to resolve ambiguities is particularly important for the perception of casual, everyday productions, which are often produced using phonetically reduced forms. Here, we examine whether the distal speech rate effect is specific to a lexical class of words and/or to particular lexical or phonological contexts. In Experiment 1, we examined whether distal speech rate influenced perception of phonologically similar content words differing in number of syllables (e.g., form/forum). In Experiment 2, we used both transcription and word-monitoring tasks to examine whether distal speech rate influenced perception of a reduced vowel, causing lexical reorganization (e.g., cease, see us). Distal speech rate influenced perception of lexical content in both experiments. This demonstrates that distal rate influences perception of a lexical class other than function words and affects perception in a variety of phonological and lexical contexts. These results support a view that distal speech rate is a pervasive source of information with far-reaching consequences for perception of lexical content and word segmentation.

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Perceptual adaptation to segmental and syllabic reductions in continuous spoken Dutch

Cited by 15 publications

References 62 publications

Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition

Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition

Training alters the resolution of lexical interference: Evidence for plasticity of competition and inhibition.

Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate influences perception of prosodically weak syllables

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