Skoruppa, Katrin and Peperkamp, Sharon. (2011) Adaptation to novel accents: feature-based learning of context-sensitive phonological regularities. Cognitive science, 35 (2). pp. 348-366.
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Abstract
This paper examines whether adults can adapt to novel accents of their native language that contain unfamiliar context-dependent phonological alternations. In two experiments, French participants listen to short stories read in accented speech. Their knowledge of the accents is then tested in a forced-choice identification task. In Experiment 1, two groups of listeners are exposed to newly created French accents in which certain vowels harmonize or disharmonize, respectively, to the rounding of the preceding vowel. Despite the cross-linguistic predominance of vowel harmony over disharmony, the two groups adapt equally well to both accents, suggesting that this typological difference is not reflected in perceptual learning. Experiment 2 further explores the mechanism underlying this type of phonological learning. Participants are exposed to an accent in which some vowels harmonize and others disharmonize, yielding an increased featural complexity. They adapt less well to this regularity, showing that adaptation to novel accents involves feature-based inferences.
Faculties and Departments: | 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Fachbereich Deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Kognitive Linguistik und Spracherwerbsforschung (Behrens, dt. Sprachw.) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Skoruppa, Katrin |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0364-0213 |
e-ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
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Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2021 09:11 |
Deposited On: | 13 Dec 2021 09:11 |
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