Gradient language dominance affects talker learning

Bregman, Micah R.; Creel, Sarah C.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.010

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“…Although it is widely reported that musicians benefit from their pitch processing skills in multiple linguistic tasks (e.g., Wong and Perrachione, 2007;Bidelman et al, 2013), enhanced pitch processing in musicians has never been directly associated with better talker identification (cf. Bregman and Creel, 2014). Similarly, despite the fact that cross-domain benefit of pitch processing for tone language users has been found in music and language studies, we do not know if speaking a tone language also makes one more sensitive to talker information in speech.…”

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“…For instance, L2 language ability has found to have gradient effect on talker identification (Bregman and Creel, 2014). On the other hand, reports on the auditory processing advantages originating from bilingualism have only been reported in studies testing high-proficient early bilinguals (Krizman et al, 2012).…”

Section: A the Impact Of Musical Training On Pitch And Talker Identimentioning

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“…Yet few studies have examined the core perceptual or cognitive factors that contribute to individual differences in talker identification in the typical population (cf. Bregman and Creel, 2014). Given that pitch constitutes a significant acoustic component of voice identity, we theorize that there is a close link between individual abilities in pitch processing and varied talker identification skills.…”

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The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

Xie

Myers

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Listeners can use pitch changes in speech to identify talkers. Individuals exhibit large variability in sensitivity to pitch and in accuracy perceiving talker identity. In particular, people who have musical training or long-term tone language use are found to have enhanced pitch perception. In the present study, the influence of pitch experience on talker identification was investigated as listeners identified talkers in native language as well as non-native languages. Experiment 1 was designed to explore the influence of pitch experience on talker identification in two groups of individuals with potential advantages for pitch processing: musicians and tone language speakers. Experiment 2 further investigated individual differences in pitch processing and the contribution to talker identification by testing a mediation model. Cumulatively, the results suggested that (a) musical training confers an advantage for talker identification, supporting a shared resources hypothesis regarding music and language and (b) linguistic use of lexical tones also increases accuracy in hearing talker identity. Importantly, these two types of hearing experience enhance talker identification by sharpening pitch perception skills in a domain-general manner.

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The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

Xie

Myers

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Indeed, recent research indicates that phonological knowledge (i.e., knowledge of the sound structure of language) is one critical factor in linking language processing and talker learning abilities (e.g., Perrachione et al, 2011;Perea et al, 2014). Support for this hypothesis comes from Bregman and Creel (2014) who examined the effects of language ability as measured by age of acquisition on non-native talker identification. Korean-English bilinguals who learned English early in life showed faster learning rates for English talkers compared with Korean-English bilinguals who learned English relatively later.…”

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“…We used a modified version of the paradigm reported in Bregman and Creel (2014) to examine readers' ability to learn native and non-native talkers and to generalize that learning to novel utterances.…”

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Reading ability influences native and non-native voice recognition, even for unimpaired readers

Kadam

Orena

Theodore

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Research suggests that phonological ability exerts a gradient influence on talker identification, including evidence that adults and children with reading disability show impaired talker recognition for native and non-native languages. The present study examined whether this relationship is also observed among unimpaired readers. Learning rate and generalization of learning in a talker identification task were examined in average and advanced readers who were tested in both native and non-native language conditions. The results indicate that even among unimpaired readers, phonological competence as captured by reading ability exerts a gradient influence on perceptual learning for talkers' voices.

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Methodological considerations for interpreting the Language Familiarity Effect in talker processing

Levi

2018

WIRES Cognitive Science

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The Language Familiarity Effect (LFE)—where listeners are better at processing talker‐voice information in their native language than in an unfamiliar language—has received renewed attention in the past 10 years. Numerous studies have sought to probe the underlying causes of this advantage by cleverly manipulating aspects of the stimuli (using phonologically related languages, backwards speech, nonwords) and by examining individual differences across listeners (testing reading ability and pitch perception). Most of these studies find evidence for the importance of phonological information or phonological processing as a supporting mechanism for the LFE. What has not been carefully examined, however, are how other methodological considerations such as task effects and stimulus length can change performance on talker‐voice processing tasks. In this review, I provide an overview of the literature on the LFE and examine how methodological decisions affect the presence or absence of the LFE. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain Psychology > Language

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Gradient language dominance affects talker learning

Cited by 43 publications

References 53 publications

The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

The impact of musical training and tone language experience on talker identification

Reading ability influences native and non-native voice recognition, even for unimpaired readers

Methodological considerations for interpreting the Language Familiarity Effect in talker processing

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