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T1 Speech segmentation is adaptive even in adulthood: Role of the linguistic environment.
A1 Namjoshi, Jui
A1 Tremblay, Annie
A1 Spinelli, Elsa
A1 Broersma, Mirjam
A1 Martínez García, María Teresa
A1 Connell, Katrina
A1 Cho, Taehong
A1 Kim, Sahyang
AB In this paper, we show that adult listeners who speak the same native language but live in different linguistic environments differ in their use of prosodic cues that signal word boundaries in the native language. Non-utterance-final word-final syllables have higher fundamental frequency in French. Adult native French listeners living in France or in the US completed an artificial-language segmentation task where fundamental frequency cued word-final boundaries (experimental). Other native French listeners living in France completed the corresponding task without prosodic cues (control). Results showed that France French listeners outperformed US French listeners and control French listeners, but US French listeners did not outperform control French listeners. The poorer performance of US French listeners is attributed to their regular exposure to (and thus interference from) English, a language where fundamental frequency signals word-initial boundaries. This suggests speech segmentation is adaptive, with listeners tuning in to the prosody of their linguistic environment.
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/70719
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/70719
LA eng
NO The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland: University of Glasgow
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-dic-2024