Where do dialectal effects on speech processing come from? Evidence from a cross-dialect investigation

Larraza, Saioa; Samuel, Arthur G.; Oñederra, Miren Lourdes

doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1124896

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“…The results summarized above are well in line with perceptual adaptation/learning experiments in which listeners are familiarized to talkers with ‘unusual’ pronunciation of a given consonant in their L1 (e.g., Bradlow & Bent, 2008; Kraljic & Samuel, 2005; Norris, McQueen & Cutler, 2003), as well as with studies that show effective perceptual remapping of phonemes that are pronounced differently in a regional accent other than that of the listeners (e.g., Dufour, Brunellière & Nguyen, 2013; Evans & Iverson, 2004; Larraza, Samuel & Oñederra, 2017; Sumner & Samuel, 2009). The existence of such abstract and flexible prelexical representations (McQueen, Cutler & Norris, 2006) is believed to be essential to listeners’ mapping of varied word forms in incoming speech to their existing phonemic categories and lexical representations.…”

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Differences in phonetic-to-lexical perceptual mapping of L1 and L2 regional accents

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2017

Bilingualism

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This study investigates how second language (L2) listeners match an unexpected accented form to their stored form of a word. The phonetic-to-lexical mapping for L2 as compared to L1 regional varieties was examined with early and late Italian-L2 speakers who were all L1-Australian English speakers. AXB discrimination and lexical decision tasks were conducted in both languages, using unfamiliar regional accents that minimize (near-merge) consonant contrasts maintained in their own L1-L2 accents. Results reveal that in the L2, early bilinguals’ recognition of accented variants depended on their discrimination capacity. Late bilinguals, for whom the accented variants were not represented in their L2 lexicon, instead mapped standard and accented exemplars to the same lexical representations (i.e., dual mapping: Samuel & Larraza, 2015). By comparison, both groups showed the same broad accommodation to L1 accented variants. Results suggest qualitatively different yet similarly effective phonetic-to-lexical mapping strategies both for L2 versus L1 regional accents.

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Differences in phonetic-to-lexical perceptual mapping of L1 and L2 regional accents

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2017

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“…Dufour et al (2007, 2010, 2016) observed that southern French speakers treated word forms like [epe] and [epε] as homophones in a primed lexical decision task. In addition, these difficulties with dialectal contrasts have been shown to extend to a second language in early bilinguals, at least in AXB discrimination and lexical decision tasks (Larazza, Samuel, & Oñederra, 2016, 2017).…”

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“…We used the cross-modal semantic (associative) priming paradigm, which is a well-established method for investigating the online processing of phonological variants and, in particular, for probing the amount of lexical activation caused by production variants (e.g., Larraza et al, 2017; Snoeren, Segui, & Halle, 2008; Sumner & Samuel, 2009). If the standard French /o/ and the southern French /ɔ/ variants are lexically encoded in the southern French speakers mental lexicon, the two forms [mov] and [mɔv] should be effective in priming the associated visual target word VIOLET “purple.” In contrast, if only one variant is stored, namely, the southern French variant /mɔv/, differential priming effects on the target word VIOLET could be observed between the standard French variant [mov] and the southern French variant [mɔv].…”

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The processing of dialectal variants: Further insight from French

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2018

Applied Psycholinguistics

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In two semantic priming experiments, this study examined how southern French speakers process the standard French [o] variant in closed syllables in comparison to their own variant [ɔ]. In Experiment 1, southern French speakers showed facilitation in the processing of the associated target word VIOLET whether the word prime mauve was pronounced by a standard French speaker ([mov]) or a southern French speaker ([mɔv]). More importantly, Experiment 1 has also revealed that words of type mauve, which are subject to dialectal variation, behave exactly in the same way as words of type gomme, which are pronounced with [ɔ] by both southern and standard French speakers, and for which we also found no modulation in the magnitude of the priming effect as a function of the dialect of the speaker. Experiment 2 replicated the priming effect found with the standard French variant [mov], and failed to show a priming effect with nonwords such as [mœv] that also differ from the southern French variant [mɔv] by only one phonetic feature. Our study thus provides further evidence for efficient processing of dialectal variants during spoken word recognition, even if these variants are not part of the speaker’s own productions.

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“…As mentioned by one reviewer, the author found that speakers produced the lamino-alveolar sibilant /s6 / in a more posterior region than is reported in the literature, and thus their pronunciation is closer to that of the apico-alveolar sibilant /s ∞ /. Larraza, Samuel & Oñederra (2016a) examined the effect of dialectal variation on the discrimination of Basque sibilant fricatives. They tested the discrimination of sibilant fricatives in speakers from a merging variety and a non-merging variety.…”

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Spectral properties of anterior sibilant fricatives in Northern Peninsular Spanish and sibilant-merging and non-merging varieties of Basque

Beristain¹

2021

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper focuses on the spectral properties of anterior sibilant fricatives in Northern Peninsular Spanish, and sibilant-merging and non-merging varieties of Basque. Non-merging varieties of Basque have two voiceless anterior sibilant fricatives, characterized as apico-alveolar and lamino-alveolar. In other Basque varieties, however, these two phonemes have merged with varying results. Twenty-four participants divided into four different groups have been studied. One group is a set of monolingual Spanish speakers from north-central Spain, while the remaining three are Basque–Spanish bilingual groups with different sibilant fricative systems in Basque. The goal is to describe the spectral properties of anterior sibilant fricatives and examine the effect of the L1-Basque sibilant system upon L2-Spanish. The Basque varieties chosen are: (i) Azpeitia Basque, where merging in favor of the lamino-alveolar sibilant fricative has occurred; (ii) Lemoa Basque, where the merging in favor of the apico-alveolar sibilant fricative is widespread; and (iii) Goizueta Basque, where no merging has happened. Participants took part in an elicitation task where they produced sentences containing target words with an intervocalic anterior sibilant fricative in Basque and Spanish. Bayesian probability was used for inferential statistics. Speakers of the non-merging Basque variety show the narrowest acoustic dispersion of /s/ in Spanish, as opposed to broader diffusion in the other three groups. Regarding L1 transfer, while the Azpeitia group does not show transfer into Spanish, the Lemoa and Goizueta groups do. Results show that /s/ is more fronted for monolingual Spanish speakers from north-central Spain than the previous literature has reported.

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Where do dialectal effects on speech processing come from? Evidence from a cross-dialect investigation

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Differences in phonetic-to-lexical perceptual mapping of L1 and L2 regional accents

Differences in phonetic-to-lexical perceptual mapping of L1 and L2 regional accents

The processing of dialectal variants: Further insight from French

Spectral properties of anterior sibilant fricatives in Northern Peninsular Spanish and sibilant-merging and non-merging varieties of Basque

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