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  • Speech perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Phonetics

Background:

  • Listener accommodation to unfamiliar talkers involves assessing acoustic properties and idiolect.
  • The role of specific speech segment exposure in this perceptual tuning is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether perceptual benefits of talker-specific tuning depend on exposure to particular speech segments.
  • To determine the impact of controlled exposure to speech on spoken word identification.

Main Methods:

  • A study controlled listener exposure to speech stimuli.
  • Spoken word identification was assessed using 'Easy' and 'Hard' words.
  • The effect of exposure to voiced obstruent consonants was measured.

Main Results:

  • Recognition of spoken words was facilitated by prior exposure to voiced obstruent consonants.
  • This benefit was observed for both easy and hard words.

Conclusions:

  • Talker-specific perceptual tuning may rely more on exposure to phonemically marked consonants.
  • Phonemic consonant exposure appears more critical than broad distribution across the phoneme inventory for tuning.