Talker-specific pronunciation or speech error? Discounting (or not) atypical pronunciations during speech perception.

ABSTRACT: Perceptual recalibration allows listeners to adapt to talker-specific pronunciations, such as atypical realizations of specific sounds. Such recalibration can facilitate robust speech recognition. However, indiscriminate recalibration following any atypically pronounced words also risks interpreting pronunciations as characteristic of a talker that are in reality because of incidental, short-lived factors (such as a speech error). We investigate whether the mechanisms underlying perceptual recalibration involve inferences about the causes for unexpected pronunciations. In 5 experiments, we ask whether perceptual recalibration is blocked if the atypical pronunciations of an unfamiliar talker can also be attributed to other incidental causes. We investigated 3 type of incidental causes for a

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6876710 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature