Talker-specific perceptual adaptation during online speech perception

Trude, Alison M.; Brown‐Schmidt, Sarah

doi:10.1080/01690965.2011.597153

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“…Studies that have looked at general accent adaptation (i.e., not to specific accent markers) did show a beneficial effect of exposure to multiple speakers (e.g., Bradlow & Bent, 2008;Sidaras et al, 2009). In fact, listeners are even able to adapt to an accent when the experiment contains one accented and one native speaker (Trude & Brown-Schmidt, 2012). One possible explanation of this result is that it was easier for participants in the Trude and Brown-Schmidt study to contrast native pronunciations with the accented mispronunciations.…”

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Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation

Witteman

Weber

McQueen

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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We investigated how the strength of a foreign accent and varying types of experience with foreignaccented speech influence the recognition of accented words. In Experiment 1, native Dutch listeners with limited or extensive prior experience with German-accented Dutch completed a cross-modal priming experiment with strongly, medium, and weakly accented words. Participants with limited experience were primed by the medium and weakly accented words, but not by the strongly accented words. Participants with extensive experience were primed by all accent types. In Experiments 2 and 3, Dutch listeners with limited experience listened to a short story before doing the cross-modal priming task. In Experiment 2, the story was spoken by the priming task speaker and either contained strongly accented words or did not. Strongly accented exposure led to immediate priming by novel strongly accented words, while exposure to the speaker without strongly accented tokens led to priming only in the experiment's second half. In Experiment 3, listeners listened to the story with strongly accented words spoken by a different Germanaccented speaker. Listeners were primed by the strongly accented words, but again only in the experiment's second half. Together, these results show that adaptation to foreignaccented speech is rapid but depends on accent strength and on listener familiarity with those strongly accented words.

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Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation

Witteman

Weber

McQueen

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

117

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“…On the other hand, there is mounting evidence that processing of phonetic information goes far beyond distinguishing phonemes (Clayards, Tanenhaus, Aslin, & Jacobs, 2008;Ju & Luce, 2006;McMurray, Tanenhaus, & Aslin, 2009b;Mitterer, Chen, & Zhou, 2011;Newman, Clouse, & Burnham, 2001;Trude & Brown-Schmidt, 2012). Exquisite perception and memory for detail have also been shown in auditory (Agus, Thorpe, & Pressnitzer, 2010) and visual processing (Brady, Konkle, Alvarez, & Oliva, 2008).…”

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Multi-level processing of phonetic variants in speech production and visual word processing: evidence from Mandarin lexical tones

Nixon

Chen

Schiller

2014

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Two picture-word interference experiments provide new evidence on the nature of phonological processing in speech production and visual word processing. In both experiments, responses were significantly faster either when distractor and target matched in tone category, but had different overt realisations (toneme condition) or when target and distractor matched in overt realisation, but mismatched in tone category (contour condition). Tone 3 sandhi is an allophone of Beijing Mandarin Tone 3 (T3). Its contour is similar to another tone, Tone 2. In Experiment 1, sandhi picture naming was faster with contour (Tone 2) and toneme (low Tone 3) distractors, compared to control distractors. This indicates both category and context-specific representations are activated in sandhi word production. In Experiment 2, both contour (Tone 2) and toneme (low Tone 3) picture naming was facilitated by visually presented sandhi distractors, compared to controls, evidence that category and context-specific instantiated representations are automatically activated during processing of visually presented words. Combined, the results point to multi-level processing of phonology, whether words are overtly produced or processed visually. Interestingly, there were differences in the time course of effects.

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“…Several studies have shown that familiarity with speaker variation facilitates speech processing (e.g., Allen & Miller, 2004;Bradlow & Pisoni, 1999;Eisner & McQueen, 2005;Nygaard & Pisoni, 1998;Nygaard, Sommers, & Pisoni, 1994;Yonan & Sommers, 2000) and may restructure linguistic representation (e.g., Creel, Aslin, & Tanenhaus, 2008;Dahan, Drucker, & Scarborough, 2008;Kraljic, Samuel, & Brennan, 2008;Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003;Trude & Brown-Schmidt, 2012). Nygaard et al (1994), for example, found that after learning to identify different speakers during training, listeners performed more accurately on a word recognition test if the words were spoken by familiar rather than unfamiliar speakers, suggesting that speaker-dependent variation is encoded by listeners and affects word recognition.…”

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The Role of Training Structure on Perceptual Learning of Accented Speech

Tzeng¹,

Nygaard²

2012

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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Foreign-accented speech contains multiple sources of variation that listeners learn to accommodate. Extending previous findings showing that exposure to high-variation training facilitates perceptual learning of accented speech, the current study examines to what extent the structure of training materials affects learning. During training, native adult speakers of American English transcribed sentences spoken in English by native Spanish-speaking adults. In Experiment 1, training stimuli were blocked by speaker, sentence, or randomized with respect to speaker and sentence (Variable training). At test, listeners transcribed novel English sentences produced by Spanish-accented speakers. Listeners' transcription accuracy was highest in the Variable condition, suggesting that varying both speaker identity and sentence across training trials enabled listeners to generalize their learning to novel speakers and linguistic content. Experiment 2 assessed the extent to which ordering of training tokens by a single factor, speaker intelligibility, would facilitate speaker-independent accent learning, finding that listeners' test performance did not reliably differ across conditions. Overall, these results suggest that the structure of training exposure, specifically trial-by-trial variation on both speaker's voice and linguistic content, facilitates learning of the systematic properties of accented speech. The current findings suggest a crucial role of training structure in optimizing perceptual learning. Beyond characterizing the types of variation listeners encode in their representations of spoken utterances, theories of spoken language processing should incorporate the role of training structure in learning lawful variation in speech.

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Talker-specific perceptual adaptation during online speech perception

Cited by 81 publications

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Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation

Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation

Multi-level processing of phonetic variants in speech production and visual word processing: evidence from Mandarin lexical tones

The Role of Training Structure on Perceptual Learning of Accented Speech

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