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Generalization in perceptual learning for speech.

Tanya Kraljic1, Arthur G Samuel

  • 1State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA. tkraljic@crl.ucsd.edu

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|August 9, 2006
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Listeners adjust their perception of speech sounds based on context and speaker. This perceptual learning is robust, generalizing across different sounds and voices.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Perception
  • Speech Processing

Background:

  • Lexical context significantly impacts the identification of ambiguous speech sounds.
  • Previous research shows listeners expand phonemic categories after exposure to lexically influenced phonemes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if listeners adjust phonemic categories for a specific speaker's voice (accent learning).
  • To determine if perceptual learning is specific to heard ambiguous phonemes or generalizes to related sounds.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a lexical decision task with ambiguous /d/ or /t/ phonemes.
  • Post-task, participants categorized sounds on /d/-/t/ and /b/-/p/ continua.
  • Categorization was performed using either the same or a different speaker's voice.

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Main Results:

  • Perceptual learning was observed, indicating adjustments in phonemic category perception.
  • These perceptual adjustments generalized across different speakers.
  • Learning also generalized across different, but related, sound continua (/d/-/t/ and /b/-/p/).

Conclusions:

  • Listeners demonstrate robust and broadly tuned perceptual learning of speech sounds.
  • Perceptual adjustments are not limited to the specific speaker or the exact ambiguous sounds encountered.