Evidence For Selective Adaptation and Recalibration in the Perception of Lexical Stress.

ABSTRACT: Individuals vary in how they produce speech. This variability affects both the segments (vowels and consonants) and the suprasegmental properties of their speech (prosody). Previous literature has demonstrated that listeners can adapt to variability in how different talkers pronounce the segments of speech. This study shows that listeners can also adapt to variability in how talkers produce lexical stress. Experiment 1 demonstrates a selective adaptation effect in lexical stress perception: repeatedly hearing Dutch trochaic words biased perception of a subsequent lexical stress continuum towards more iamb responses. Experiment 2 demonstrates a recalibration effect in lexical stress perception: when ambiguous suprasegmental cues to lexical stress were disambiguated by l

SUBMITTER: Bosker HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014674 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature