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  • Cognitive Science
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics

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  • Speech perception relies on ingrained native language patterns.
  • Listeners can rapidly adapt to acoustic variations like accents.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate baseline acoustic cue weighting in vowel categorization.
  • Examine adaptation to an artificial accent altering cue correlations.
  • Determine if lexical information is necessary for adaptive plasticity.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed native English listeners' baseline reliance on spectral quality and vowel duration.
  • Exposed listeners to an artificial accent with perturbed spectral-duration correlations.
  • Tested generalization of learning to new words and voices.

Main Results:

  • Listeners initially prioritize spectral quality over duration for vowel categorization.
  • Rapid down-weighting of duration reliance occurred when exposed to the artificial accent.
  • Adaptive learning occurred even with nonwords, indicating lexical independence.

Conclusions:

  • Short-term statistical learning drives rapid adaptation in speech perception.
  • This plasticity is not dependent on lexical information.
  • Learned adaptations generalize across different contexts and talkers.