When Jack isn't Jacques: Simultaneous opposite language-specific speech perceptual learning in French-English bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: Humans are remarkably good at understanding spoken language, despite the huge variability of the signal as a function of the talker, the situation, and the environment. This success relies on having access to stable representations based on years of speech input, coupled with the ability to adapt to short-term deviations from these norms, e.g. accented speech or speech altered by ambient noise. In the last two decades, there has been a robust research effort focused on a possible mechanism for adjusting to accented speech. In these studies, listeners typically hear 15 - 20 words in which a speech sound has been altered, creating a short-term deviation from its longer-term representation. After exposure to these items, listeners demonstrate "lexically driven phonetic recalibration"-they alt

SUBMITTER: Caudrelier T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11378075 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature