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Specificity and generalization in perceptual adaptation to accented speech
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In: J Acoust Soc Am (2019)
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Vocal alignment to native and non-native speakers of English
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Research on vocal alignment, the tendency for language users to match another individual's speech productions, suggests that multiple factors contribute to this behavior. Social and motivational goals, aspects of cognitive architecture, and linguistic flexibility may all affect the extent to which vocal alignment occurs, suggesting complex underlying mechanisms. The present study capitalized on the social and linguistic characteristics of Spanish-accented English to examine the relationship among these contributors to vocal alignment. American English-speaking adults participated in a shadowing task. Degree of vocal alignment was assessed by both acoustic measures and independent raters' judgments. Participants aligned to both native English and Spanish-accented productions, despite differences in attitudes to and intelligibility of the different accents. Individual differences in shadowers' vowel dispersion were also related to extent of vocal alignment, with greater dispersion associated with greater alignment. Acoustic measures were related to perceptual assessments of alignment and differed by accent type, suggesting that patterns of alignment may differ across accents. Overall, the current study demonstrates vocal alignment between talkers of differing language backgrounds and highlights the importance of acoustic and linguistic components of alignment behavior.
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Speech Communication
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082668/ https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5038567 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180696
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Prosody in speech as a source of referential information ...
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The Specificity of Sound Symbolic Correspondences in Spoken Language
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The Role of Training Structure in Perceptual Learning of Accented Speech
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Tone of voice guides word learning in informative referential contexts
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Charm or Harm: Effect of Passage Content on Listener Attitudes toward American English Accents
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Perceptual learning of systematic variation in Spanish-accented speech
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