| Differences in the time-course of accent adaptation: a comparison of adaptation to foreign-accented and unfamiliar regionally-accented speech. | |
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PMID: 18529608 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Recent work in speech perception has demonstrated that listeners are able to rapidly adapt to foreign- accented speech (Clarke and Garrett, 2004). However, it is not clear whether adaptation to an unfamiliar regional accent operates in the same way. Although some studies have shown that listeners are able to adapt to different accents within the same language after only a short amount of exposure (e.g., Maye et al., in press), others have shown that listeners do not always alter their perceptual representations when listening to a non-native regional accent even if they are highly familiar with that accent (Evans and Iverson, 2004, 2007). In this study, we further explored perceptual adaptation to different accents by comparing the time course of adaptation to an unfamiliar regional accent with adaptation to foreign- accented speech. Listeners identified sentences in noise produced in either an unfamiliar regional accent (Glaswegian) or foreign-accented speech (Spanish-accented English). Preliminary results suggest a different pattern of adaptation for each accent: although listeners show greater adaptation to foreign- accented speech, they perform more poorly with foreign-accented speech overall and the rate of adaptation is slower. |
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Bronwen G Evans; Patti Adank |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 123 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2008 May |
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Created Date: 2008-06-05 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3073 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, NW12HE London, UK, bronwen.evans@ucl.ac.uk. |
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