Learning to Perceive Non-Native Tones via Distributional Training: Effects of Task and Acoustic Cue Weighting.

ABSTRACT: As many distributional learning (DL) studies have shown, adult listeners can achieve discrimination of a difficult non-native contrast after a short repetitive exposure to tokens falling at the extremes of that contrast. Such studies have shown using behavioural methods that a short distributional training can induce perceptual learning of vowel and consonant contrasts. However, much less is known about the neurological correlates of DL, and few studies have examined non-native lexical tone contrasts. Here, Australian-English speakers underwent DL training on a Mandarin tone contrast using behavioural (discrimination, identification) and neural (oddball-EEG) tasks, with listeners hearing either a bimodal or a unimodal distribution. Behavioural results show that listeners learned to discrim

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9138676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature