29.2709, Books: The effects of nativeness and background noise on the perceptual learning of voices and ambiguous sounds: Drozdova

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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:17:07
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The effects of nativeness and background noise on the perceptual learning of voices and ambiguous sounds: Drozdova

Title: The effects of nativeness and background noise on the perceptual
learning of voices and ambiguous sounds 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-effects-of-nativeness-and-background-noise-on-the-perceptual-learning-of-voices-and-ambiguous-sounds 

Author: Polina Drozdova

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932670 Pages: 212 Price: Europe EURO 31.00

Abstract:

The speech signal is highly variable: listeners are exposed to multiple
speakers, each having their own unique pronunciation. Moreover, communication
often occurs in suboptimal conditions, e.g., due to the presence of background
noise or because it is conducted in a non-native language. Despite variability
in the speech signal, native listeners are usually able to quickly adapt to
unfamiliar speakers by means of perceptual learning.  In principle perceptual
learning could be especially beneficial when listening conditions are adverse,
however, it may potentially be impeded due to listeners having difficulties
picking up the relevant acoustic,  lexical or phonological information from
the signal.

This thesis investigates the role of nativeness and background noise on the
perceptual learning of ambiguous sounds and voices. The perceptual learning of
ambiguous sounds was addressed in five experiments with native and non-native
listeners who were exposed to an ambiguous sound with or without the presence
of background noise. The results showed that both the native and non-native
perceptual system flexibly adapted in clean listening conditions, while
learning was impeded for non-native listeners when background noise was
present. The perceptual learning of voices was addressed in a large-scale
learning study in which non-native listeners learned to recognize voices of
unfamiliar speakers. The results revealed that non-native listeners are able
to learn voices and benefit from  voice familiarity in speech processing, but
not in word recognition. Taken together, these results support a hybrid theory
of lexical access, underlining the importance of both abstract and
talker-specific information in speech comprehension.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Phonetics

Written In: English  (eng)

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