Rapid adaptation to foreign-accented speech and its transfer to an unfamiliar talker.
J Acoust Soc Am
; 143(4): 2013, 2018 04.
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| ID: mdl-29716296
ABSTRACT
How fast can listeners adapt to unfamiliar foreign accents? Clarke and Garrett [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 3647-3658 (2004)] (CG04) reported that native-English listeners adapted to foreign-accented English within a minute, demonstrating improved processing of spoken words. In two web-based experiments that closely follow the design of CG04, the effects of rapid accent adaptation are examined and its generalization is explored across talkers. Experiment 1 replicated the core finding of CG04 that initial perceptual difficulty with foreign-accented speech can be attenuated rapidly by a brief period of exposure to an accented talker. Importantly, listeners showed both faster (replicating CG04) and more accurate (extending CG04) comprehension of this talker. Experiment 2 revealed evidence that such adaptation transferred to a different talker of a same accent. These results highlight the rapidity of short-term accent adaptation and raise new questions about the underlying mechanism. It is suggested that the web-based paradigm provides a useful tool for investigations in speech adaptation.
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Acústica da Fala
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Percepção da Fala
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Fonética
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Adaptação Psicológica
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Compreensão
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Idioma
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Female
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article