Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories

Published on 6th March.

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Autores: McLaughlin, Drew J., Samuel, Arthur G.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:phonemic recalibration
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spelling Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categoriesMcLaughlin, Drew J.Samuel, Arthur G.phonemic recalibrationaccentspeech perceptionPublished on 6th March.We examine how first language (L1) Spanish listeners with varying levels of experience with English recalibrate their phonemic category boundaries following exposure to second language (L2), American- English-accented Spanish. Specifically, we examine changes to voice onset time (VOT) boundaries, which are often positively-shifted when produced by American-English-accented Spanish speakers (as compared to L1 Spanish speakers). Our results demonstrate that listeners make adjustments to their phonemic category boundaries following exposure to accented words with the critical sounds in onset position (e.g., “bailar” and “parir”, meaning “to dance” and “to give birth”, for the /b/ and /p/ phonemic categories). In many cases generalization of phonemic learning was also observed, such that boundaries for categories that were not presented in training were also adjusted. Surprisingly, however, there were cases in which boundaries for trained categories did not show adjustments; for example, listeners trained with items for all places of articulation (POAs) showed recalibration of their bilabial and alveolar boundaries but not their velar boundary. Also notable was the role of the Spanish listeners' experience with English: More experienced listeners showed more positively-shifted (English-like) boundaries in the pre-test session. This suggests that more experienced listeners may have rapidly identified the American- English-accented Spanish and applied their English category boundaries accordingly. We conclude that listener accommodation of L2 accent is supported by a phonemic recalibration mechanism, and that experience with the L1 of an L2-accented speaker facilitates rapid recalibration of phonemic categories.This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101103964, the Basque Government through the BERC 2022-2025 program, and the Spanish State Research Agency through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation CEX2020-001010-S.APA202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/75127reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/GV/BERC 2022-2025/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/SEV-CEX2020-001010-S/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/MSCA/101103964https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/xhpinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAll rights, including for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies, are reserved.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/751272026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
title Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
spellingShingle Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
McLaughlin, Drew J.
phonemic recalibration
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speech perception
title_short Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
title_full Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
title_fullStr Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
title_full_unstemmed Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
title_sort Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv McLaughlin, Drew J.
Samuel, Arthur G.
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Samuel, Arthur G.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv phonemic recalibration
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speech perception
topic phonemic recalibration
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speech perception
description Published on 6th March.
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