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Listeners struggle to adapt to foreign accents, even after learning specific pronunciation shifts. This research shows that while some learning occurs, overcoming non-native speech difficulties remains challenging.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Phonetics

Background:

  • Listeners typically adapt to foreign-accented speech quickly.
  • However, difficulties in understanding non-native accents persist, with unclear adaptation timelines and specificity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if listeners can learn a foreign accent's specific phonetic feature to improve speech perception.
  • To determine if this adaptation aids in resolving lexical competition during real-time processing.

Main Methods:

  • Participants listened to native English and Québec French speakers producing a specific vowel shift (/i/ to [i]).
  • Experiments tested the ability to use the learned shift to disambiguate words, especially when a lexical competitor was present.

Main Results:

  • Adaptation to the foreign accent's vowel shift was limited across four experiments.
  • Learning and improvement were observed over time and with stimulus variations.
  • Adaptation did not improve when a native English speaker produced the same vowel shift.

Conclusions:

  • Listeners can learn features of foreign accents, but this process presents significant challenges.
  • The difficulties in adaptation are not solely due to the talker being non-native.
  • Effective interpretation of foreign-accented speech requires overcoming substantial processing hurdles.