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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-01799S" target="_blank" >GA18-01799S: Vliv akcentu mluvčího na osvojování si hlásek mateřského jazyka</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

LANGUAGE LEARNING

ISSN

0023-8333

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

71

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

131-161

Kód UT WoS článku

000568748100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85090449736