Dimension-Based Statistical Learning Affects Both Speech Perception and Production.
Multiple acoustic dimensions signal speech categories. However, dimensions vary in their informativeness; some are more diagnostic of category membership than others. Speech categorization reflects these dimensional regularities such that diagnostic dimensions carry more "perceptual weight" and more effectively signal category membership to native listeners. Yet perceptual weights are malleable. When short-term experience deviates from long-term language norms, such as in a foreign accent, the perceptual weight of acoustic dimensions in signaling speech category membership rapidly adjusts. The present study investigated whether rapid adjustments in listeners' perceptual weights in response to speech that deviates from the norms also affects listeners' own speech productions. In a word recognition task, the correlation between two acoustic dimensions signaling consonant categories, fundamental frequency (F0) and voice onset time (VOT), matched the correlation typical of English, and then shifted to an "artificial accent" that reversed the relationship, and then shifted back. Brief, incidental exposure to the artificial accent caused participants to down-weight perceptual reliance on F0, consistent with previous research. Throughout the task, participants were intermittently prompted with pictures to produce these same words. In the block in which listeners heard the artificial accent with a reversed F0 × VOT correlation, F0 was a less robust cue to voicing in listeners' own speech productions. The statistical regularities of short-term speech input affect both speech perception and production, as evidenced via shifts in how acoustic dimensions are weighted.
Department of Psychology and the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University.
Matthew
M
Lehet
Department of Psychology and the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University.
Lori L
LL
Holt
D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011337:Probability Learning; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*
Communication; Dimension-based statistical learning; Language understanding; Motor control; Perception; Perceptual weighting; Speech recognition
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