Distributional learning of speech sounds: exploring the effects of prior language experience

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73603187" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73603187 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12432" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12432</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12432" target="_blank" >10.1111/lang.12432</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Distributional learning of speech sounds: exploring the effects of prior language experience
Original language description
Distributional learning is typically understood as inattentive tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and Greek adults, whose native languages respectively contain and lack abstract length categories, were exposed to novel vowels falling into unimodal or bimodal distributions along the durational dimension. A trending interaction suggested that the Czechs and the Greeks might have been affected differently by the distributional exposure. Improved discrimination of the ‘trained’ contrast was observed in bimodally-exposed Czechs (whose prior expectations about length categories can guide learning), and, rather surprisingly, in unimodally-exposed Greeks (who, lacking any expectations might have listened in a non-categorical, auditory mode). Prior linguistic experience could thus affect whether and how experienced language users exploit distributional speech statistics: this proposal needs to be assessed in future studies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-01799S" target="_blank" >GA18-01799S: The effect of talker accent on speech sound learning in infants</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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