Abstract:The present study investigated the relative contribution of talker-specific and accent-general learning to the perceptual adaptation of accented speech. Adult native English-speaking listeners were asked to transcribe Korean-accented English words in a brief, high variability perceptual learning paradigm. During training, listeners transcribed individual words produced by six Korean-accented speakers and were given feedback on their transcription performance. Controls were either trained with native English sp… Show more
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