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Accent modulates access to word meaning: Evidence for a speaker-model account of spoken word recognition. ...
Cai, Zhenguang G; Gilbert, Becky; Davis, Matt. - : Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2017
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Accent modulates access to word meaning: Evidence for a speaker-model account of spoken word recognition.
Cai, Zhenguang G; Gilbert, Becky; Davis, Matt; Gaskell, M Gareth; Farrar, Lauren; Adler, Sarah; Rodd, Jennifer M. - : Elsevier, 2017. : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028517300762?via=ihub#!, 2017. : Cognitive Psychology, 2017
Abstract: Speech carries accent information relevant to determining the speaker's linguistic and social background. A series of web-based experiments demonstrate that accent cues can modulate access to word meaning. In Experiments 1-3, British participants were more likely to retrieve the American dominant meaning (e.g., hat meaning of "bonnet") in a word association task if they heard the words in an American than a British accent. In addition, results from a speeded semantic decision task (Experiment 4) and sentence comprehension task (Experiment 5) confirm that accent modulates on-line meaning retrieval such that comprehension of ambiguous words is easier when the relevant word meaning is dominant in the speaker's dialect. Critically, neutral-accent speech items, created by morphing British- and American-accented recordings, were interpreted in a similar way to accented words when embedded in a context of accented words (Experiment 2). This finding indicates that listeners do not use accent to guide meaning retrieval on a word-by-word basis; instead they use accent information to determine the dialectic identity of a speaker and then use their experience of that dialect to guide meaning access for all words spoken by that person. These results motivate a speaker-model account of spoken word recognition in which comprehenders determine key characteristics of their interlocutor and use this knowledge to guide word meaning access.
Keyword: Accent; Adult; Comprehension; Dialect; Female; Humans; Male; Recognition (Psychology); Semantic ambiguity; Speech; Speech Perception; Spoken word recognition; United Kingdom; United States
URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37231
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290004
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