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Adaptation to time-compressed speech: phonological determinants.

N Sebastián-Gallés1, E Dupoux, A Costa

  • 1Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. sebastia@psico.psi.ub.es

Perception & Psychophysics
|July 7, 2000
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Spanish speakers adapt to time-compressed speech in rhythmically similar languages. Adaptation depends on phonological factors beyond just rhythm, including vowel systems and stress patterns.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Auditory Adaptation

Background:

  • Perceptual adaptation to time-compressed speech is considered language-specific and occurs at the phonological level.
  • Previous research suggests adaptation is limited to rhythmically similar languages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate perceptual adaptation to time-compressed speech in Spanish speakers across various languages.
  • To test the hypothesis that rhythmic similarity is the primary factor in cross-linguistic speech adaptation.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Spanish speakers adapted to time-compressed speech in Spanish, Italian, French, English, and Japanese.
  • Experiment 2: Spanish speakers adapted to time-compressed Greek sentences at two different rates.

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Main Results:

  • Significant adaptation was observed for Spanish, Italian, and Greek.
  • No adaptation was found for English and Japanese, with French showing intermediate results.
  • Greek data suggest phonological, not lexical, information is key for adaptation.

Conclusions:

  • Rhythmic similarity alone does not fully explain adaptation to time-compressed speech.
  • Vowel systems and lexical stress patterns are crucial variables influencing cross-linguistic adaptation.
  • Phonological processing plays a more significant role than lexical information in speech adaptation.