Listeners’ categorisation behaviour correlates with gradient changes in exposure statistics
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0043/000585Keywords:
speech perception, speech adaptation, distributional learningAbstract
Listeners can successfully understand talkers despite substantial cross-talker variability in the mapping between phonetic cues and linguistic categories. However, the mechanisms underlying this adaptive ability remain insufficiently understood. This study investigates the extent to which listeners can adapt their interpretation of speech based on the distribution of phonetic cues in recent input, and whether prior expectations regarding how talkers typically sound guide and constrain this adaptation process.
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