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Area of Science:

  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Perceptual adaptation allows listeners to adjust to variations in speech input.
  • Understanding how first language (L1) and second language (L2) listeners adapt to accented speech is crucial for communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate phonetic adjustment mechanisms in L1 (Dutch-English) and L2 listeners.
  • To examine how phonemic contrasts in Dutch influence adaptation to novel English accent patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Listeners were exposed to a novel English accent with controlled phonetic deviations.
  • Disambiguating feedback was provided post-exposure.
  • Lexical decision and word identification tasks assessed adaptation.

Main Results:

  • Both L1 and L2 listeners showed adaptation to the trained accent patterns.
  • L2 listener adaptation was modulated by whether phonetic contrasts were present in Dutch.
  • L2 listeners' criterion loosening was limited to Dutch-English shared contrasts.

Conclusions:

  • Accent exposure enhances tolerance for atypical speech in both L1 and L2 listeners.
  • Phonetic category adjustments are targeted and influenced by native language phonology for L2 learners.