The Effects of Language Experience and Speech Context on the Phonetic Accommodation of English-accented Spanish Voicing.
Native speakers of Spanish with different amounts of experience with English classified stop-consonant voicing (/b/ versus /p/) across different speech accents: English-accented Spanish, native Spanish, and native English. While listeners with little experience with English classified target voicing with an English- or Spanish-like voice onset time (VOT) boundary, predicted by contextual VOT, listeners familiar with English relied on an English-like VOT boundary in an English-accented Spanish context even in the absence of clear contextual cues to English VOT. This indicates that Spanish listeners accommodated English-accented Spanish voicing differently depending on their degree of familiarization with the English norm.
School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, USA.
Fernando
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Llanos
Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
Alexander L
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Francis
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception; D014833:Voice Quality
English; Foreign-accented speech; Spanish; bilingualism; phonetic calibration; phonetic relaxation; phonetic switching; stop-consonant voicing; voice onset time