Is rate-dependent perception affected by linguistic information about the intended syllable rate?

ABSTRACT: Speech is highly variable in rate, challenging the perception of sound contrasts that are dependent on duration. Listeners deal with such variability by perceiving incoming speech relative to the rate in the surrounding context. For instance, the same ambiguous vowel is more likely to be perceived as being long when embedded in a fast sentence, but as short when embedded in a slow sentence. However, it is still debated to what extent domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms (i.e., language- or speech-specific mechanisms) contribute to rate-dependent perception. Here we examined the role of domain-specific mechanisms in an implicit rate-normalization task in which we manipulated linguistic knowledge about how many syllables words have. Dutch participants were presented with lists of Du

SUBMITTER: Severijnen GGA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12627188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature