The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change

Beddor, Patrice Speeter; Coetzee, Andries W.; Styler, Will; McGowan, Kevin B.; Boland, Julie E.

doi:10.1353/lan.2018.0051

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“…When the latter speakers are paired as listeners with strong [s]-retractors, the weak retractors have an opportunity to actuate a sound change, if their percept of [s] as [ʃ] is reanalyzed to /ʃ/ (or to an equivalent phonological rule) and they begin to use that system in their own productions. Beddor et al (2018) found that the link between production and perception extends also to the time course according to which listeners make use of phonetic cues. Their results show that participants' production of coarticulatory nasalization was predictive of the time course of their perception of the same information.…”

Section: Perception Production and The Individualmentioning

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Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change

Voeten

2020

Lang Speech

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It is still unclear whether an individual’s adoption of on-going sound change starts in production or in perception, and what the time course of the adoption of sound change is in adult speakers. These issues are investigated by means of a large-scale (106 participants) laboratory study of an on-going vowel shift in Dutch. The shift involves the tense mid vowels /eː,øː,oː/, which are changing into phonologically conditioned upgliding diphthongs, and the original diphthongs /εi,œy,ɔu/, whose nuclei are lowering. These changes are regionally stratified: they have all but completed in the Netherlands, but have not affected the variety of Dutch spoken in neighboring Belgium. The study compares production (word-list reading) and perception (rhyme decision) data from control groups from each country to those of 18 “sociolinguistic migrants”: Belgian individuals who moved to the Netherlands years ago. Data are analyzed using mixed-effects models, considering not just the group level, but also individual differences. Production results show that at the group level, the migrant group is in between the two control groups, but at the individual level it becomes apparent that some migrants have adopted the Netherlandic norms, but others have not. Perception results are similar to the production results at the group level. Individual-level results do not provide a clear picture for the perception data, but the individual differences in perception correlate with those in production. The results agree with and extend previous findings on the role of individual differences in the individual adoption and eventual community propagation of on-going sound change.

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Section: Perception Production and The Individualmentioning

confidence: 98%

Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change

Voeten

2020

Lang Speech

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“…Given that F2 onset frequency was not a spectral measure included in the acoustic analysis conducted, this difference is unlikely to have affected the results of the perception-production correlation analysis in any significant way. Finally, as summarized succinctly in Beddor et al (2018), successful communication depends on the listeners being malleable and able to perceptually adapt to a diverse set of variances, including phonetic context, speaker, speaking rate, novel experiences, and others. To the extent that listeners are able to adapt efficiently, the production system may not need to be similarly malleable.…”

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“…The perception-production link might be further complicated by other mediating factors. For example, studies concerning the processing of coarticulated information have found that coarticulatory information not only affects the classification and discrimination of speech, but also the temporal dynamics of speech processing (e.g., Beddor, Coetzee, Styler, McGowan, & Boland, 2018;Beddor, McGowan, Boland, Coetzee, & Brasher, 2013;Dahan, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 2001;Mahr, McMillan, Saffran, Weismer, & Edwards, 2015). The perception-production correspondence might be affected by individual variability in their general processing skills and styles.…”

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“…The perception-production correspondence might be affected by individual variability in their general processing skills and styles. Beddor et al (2018), for example, found that participants who produced an earlier onset of coarticulatory nasalization on vowels were more efficient users of nasality as listeners as that information unfolds over time. Furthermore, previous literature on the perception-production link outside of the coarticulated speech domain also suggests that the link might be more nuanced.…”

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On the nature of the perception-production link: Individual variability in English sibilant-vowel coarticulation

2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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This study aims to elucidate the nature of the perception-production link with respect to coarticulation by examining the production and perception of English sibilants before different vowels. A group of native speakers of American English were recorded reciting a set of /s/and /ʃ/-initial words in different vocalic contexts and took part in an identification experiment designed to test their ability to adjust their perceptual expectation in light of the vocalic influence on the preceding sibilant. Significant correlations between the production and perception results were observed when by-subject estimates for context-relevant predictors (and their interactions) in the perception regression models were examined in relation to the by-subject estimates of the production regression models. These results suggest a positive correlation between how much an individual attends to context-specific variation in perception and how the sibilant contrast is realized in specific vocalic contexts. Ramifications of these findings are discussed for the nature of speech perception and production and the understanding of sound change.

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“…It might be reasonable to expect similar individual differences in convergence, although convergence involves not just perception but also production and the link between them. Previous work has found inconsistent results on whether individual variation in perception and production is correlated: Some studies find a correlation between production of coarticulation and perceptual compensation for it (e.g., Beddor, Coetzee, Styler, McGowan, & Boland, 2018;Yu, 2019;Zellou, 2017) and between distinctiveness of vowels in perception and production (Perkell et al, 2004), while others do not find such correlations for coarticulation (e.g., Grosvald & Corina, 2012;Kataoka, 2011) or cue weighting (Schertz, Cho, Lotto, & Warner, 2015;Schultz, Francis, & Llanos, 2012). Some of the apparent perception-production correlations may reflect phonologized dialectal differences rather than individual differences (Harrington, Kleber, & Reubold, 2008).…”

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Natural Leaders: Some Interlocutors Elicit Greater Convergence Across Conversations and Across Characteristics

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Sanker

2020

Cognitive Science

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Are there individual tendencies in convergence, such that some speakers consistently converge more than others? Similarly, are there natural "leaders," speakers with whom others converge more? Are such tendencies consistent across different linguistic characteristics? We use the Switchboard Corpus to perform a large-scale convergence study of speakers in multiple conversations with different interlocutors, across six linguistic characteristics. Because each speaker participated in several conversations, it is possible to look for individual differences in speakers' likelihood of converging and interlocutors' likelihood of eliciting convergence. We only find evidence for individual differences by interlocutor, not by speaker: There are natural leaders of convergence, who elicit more convergence than others across characteristics and across conversations. The lack of similar evidence for speakers who converge more than others suggests that social factors have a stronger effect in mediating convergence than putative individual tendencies in producing convergence, or that such tendencies are characteristic-specific.

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The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change

Cited by 40 publications

References 68 publications

Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change

Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change

On the nature of the perception-production link: Individual variability in English sibilant-vowel coarticulation

Natural Leaders: Some Interlocutors Elicit Greater Convergence Across Conversations and Across Characteristics

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