Phonetic processing of non-native speech in semantic vs non-semantic tasks

Gustafson, Erin; Engstler, Caroline; Goldrick, Matthew

doi:10.1121/1.4826914

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“…When required to unexpectedly switch the language of production, native Spanish speakers' English productions became more accented relative to when they did not switch languages. This finding extends previous work suggesting that placing speakers in a difficult production context can increase speakers' accents (Gustafson, Engstler, & Goldrick, 2013;Howell & Dworzynski, 2001). The current findings extend these results, showing that speakers do not simply adopt a particular speech style in a difficult production context.…”

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Language Switching Makes Pronunciation Less Nativelike

Goldrick¹,

Runnqvist

Costa

2014

Psychol Sci

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It is well known that multilingual speakers' nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker's accent? Such difficulties are predicted by interactive theories of production, which propose that nontarget representations, partially activated during lexical access, influence phonetic processing. We examined this possibility using language switching, a task that is well known to disrupt multilingual speech production. We found that these disruptions extend to the articulation of individual speech sounds. When native Spanish speakers are required to unexpectedly switch the language of production between Spanish and English, their speech becomes more accented than when they do not switch languages (particularly for cognate targets). These findings suggest that accents reflect not only difficulty in acquiring second-language speech sounds but also the influence of representations partially activated during on-line speech processing.

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Language Switching Makes Pronunciation Less Nativelike

Goldrick¹,

Runnqvist

Costa

2014

Psychol Sci

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“…Alternatively, bilinguals may have distinct knowledge of both patterns (Altenberg & Cairns, 1983;Gonzales & Lotto, 2013) but tune their expectations or processing to current conditions, such as the language(s) in use, talker characteristics, or task demands. There is evidence for variable, contextdependent crosslinguistic influence in bilinguals' production of phonetic categories (Antoniou, Best, Tyler, & Kroos, 2011;Balukas & Koops, 2014;Goldrick, Runnqvist, & Costa, 2014;Gustafson, Engstler, & Goldrick, 2013;Howell & Dworzynski, 2001;Olson, 2013;Sancier & Fowler, 1997). This raises the possibility that the influence of language-specific knowledge on speech perception, in a single target language, may shift according to contextual conditions.…”

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Navigating conflicting phonotactic constraints in bilingual speech perception

Carlson

Goldrick²,

Blasingame³

et al. 2015

Bilingualism

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Word-initial /s/-consonant clusters do not occur in Spanish. Confronted with such sequences (e.g., in loanwords), Spanish speakers tend to perceive an illusory initial /e/, ‘repairing’ the illicit sequence. In two experiments, both conducted in Spanish with Spanish-sounding nonwords, we ask whether knowledge of English, which has no restriction against this sound sequence, weakens this pattern of perceptual repair in fluent Spanish–English bilinguals, and whether the effects of English depend on language dominance. In both identification and discrimination tasks, bilinguals exhibited weaker perceptual repair effects relative to Spanish monolinguals. This was true even for bilinguals dominant in Spanish, though the weakening was more pronounced for English-dominant bilinguals. These results show that conflicting phonotactic systems can jointly influence bilinguals’ perceptual repair of the acoustic signal in the more restrictive language, even when it is the bilingual's dominant language, suggesting a degree of integration and mutual influence of knowledge between both their languages.

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“…A secondary aim of this study was to test the strength of the perception–production link when production was elicited under controlled and spontaneous conditions. Research has suggested that there are tradeoffs between semantic processing—the cognitive load that task demands place on the speaker—and production accuracy (Gustafson, Engstler, & Goldrick, 2013). Extending these findings to the perception–production link, a stronger link might be expected between perception and controlled production than between perception and spontaneous production.…”

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Revisiting Perception–Production Relationships: Exploring a New Approach to Investigate Perception as a Time‐Varying Predictor

Nagle

2020

Language Learning

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Models of L2 pronunciation learning have hypothesized that accurate speech perception promotes accurate speech production. This claim can be evaluated longitudinally by examining the extent to which changes in stop consonant perception predict changes in stop consonant production. Taking a time‐sensitive view of the perception–production link, this study used longitudinal data to analyze perception as a time‐varying predictor of production accuracy. Mixed‐effects models were fit to oddity, delayed word repetition, and picture description tasks to examine how participants’ perception and production changed over time. Oddity task perception data were then decomposed into their between‐ and within‐subjects components and integrated into the delayed repetition and picture description production models. Surprisingly, only the between‐subjects predictors reached significance, and the strength of the perception–production link varied across production tasks and target phones. The methods used have implications for future research on perception–production links.

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Phonetic processing of non-native speech in semantic vs non-semantic tasks

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Language Switching Makes Pronunciation Less Nativelike

Language Switching Makes Pronunciation Less Nativelike

Navigating conflicting phonotactic constraints in bilingual speech perception

Revisiting Perception–Production Relationships: Exploring a New Approach to Investigate Perception as a Time‐Varying Predictor

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