Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation
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Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation.
We investigated how the strength of a foreign accent and varying types of experience with foreign-accented speech influence the recognition of accented words. In Experiment 1, native Dutch listeners with limited or extensive prior experience with German-accented Dutch completed a cross-modal priming experiment with strongly, medium, and weakly accented words. Participants with limited experienc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1943-3921,1943-393X
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0404-y