Journal article
Effects of multilingual and monolingual social networks on speech perception
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.152(4), pp.A236-A236
10/2022
DOI: 10.1121/10.0016126
Abstract
Speech perception is gradient—listeners track continuous acoustic differences within a category (McMurray et al., 2022; Kapnoula & McMurray, 2022). Listeners use this gradiency to adjust subphonetic details (McMurray & Jongman, 2011), recover from ambiguity (McMurray et al., 2009), and aid learning and adaptation (McMurray & Farris-Trimble, 2012; Clayards et al., 2008). However, it is unclear whether gradiency is a developmental product of linguistic experience, particularly the variability of speech that is experienced. This ongoing project (current n = 31, planned n = 60) is testing school-aged children (6–11 years old) using the visual analogue scaling task (Kong & Edwards, 2011). Children hear tokens from a speech continuum (e.g., beach/peach) and make continuous ratings about how /b/- or /p/- like the sound is. This is related to social network information regarding children’s language and social background. Preliminary results suggest that linguistic diversity impacts speech perception gradiency. The implications of bilingual education and linguistic environment in development will be discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of multilingual and monolingual social networks on speech perception
- Creators
- Ethan Kutlu - University of IowaAlexandra FellKeith ApfelbaumBob McMurray - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.152(4), pp.A236-A236
- DOI
- 10.1121/10.0016126
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- eISSN
- 1520-8524
- Number of pages
- 1
- Date published
- 10/2022
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984319359402771
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