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Area of Science:

  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech perception

Background:

  • Nasal flaps in American English (e.g., 'cenner') are frequent but recognized slower than canonical /nt/ pronunciations.
  • Listeners exhibit a processing disadvantage for these common allophonic variants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how increased exposure and phonetic context affect the recognition of nasal flap variants.
  • To determine if listeners adapt to phonetic variation in speech.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted to test the influence of exposure and context on word recognition.
  • Participants recognized flapped variants in isolation and within casual vs. careful sentence contexts.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1: Recognition time for flapped variants decreased with exposure, while accuracy increased.
  • Experiment 2: Flapped variants in casual speech were recognized faster than in careful speech, particularly in later responses.
  • Context effects were specific to flapped variants, not canonical ones.

Conclusions:

  • Increased listener exposure and casual phonetic context facilitate the recognition of allophonic variants.
  • Findings support the adaptability of speech perception to phonetic variation.