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COGNITION
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 54-81Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.013
Keywords
speech perception; speech production; perceptual learning; coarticulation; dialects; idiolects; language change; speech accommodation
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- NICHD NIH HHS [F32 HD052342-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH051663-14] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [R0151663] Funding Source: Medline
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Listeners are faced with enormous variation in pronunciation, yet they rarely have difficulty understanding speech. Although much research has been devoted to figuring out how listeners deal with variability, virtually none (outside of sociolinguistics) has focused on the source of the variation itself. The current experiments explore whether different kinds of variation lead to different cognitive and behavioral adjustments. Specifically, we compare adjustments to the same acoustic consequence when it is due to context-independent variation (resulting from articulatory properties unique to a speaker) versus context-conditioned variation (resulting from common articulatory properties of speakers who share a dialect). The contrasting results for these two cases show that the source of a particular acoustic-phonetic variation affects how that variation is handled by the perceptual system. We also show that changes in perceptual representations do not necessarily lead to changes in production. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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