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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Processing
  • Speech Perception

Background:

  • Listeners utilize linguistic cues and world knowledge for predictive processing of spoken words.
  • Previous research on predictive processing primarily focused on optimal listening environments.
  • The impact of foreign-accented speech on predictive processing remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how foreign-accented speech affects predictive word processing.
  • To determine if listener experience with specific accents enhances predictive processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the visual world paradigm to track listeners' eye movements.
  • Presented participants with both native and foreign-accented speech stimuli.
  • Manipulated listener experience with foreign accents.

Main Results:

  • Foreign-accented speech was found to impede, but not prevent, predictive processing.
  • Listener experience with foreign accents positively correlated with improved predictive processing.
  • Predictive processing for accented speech approached native speech patterns with increased listener experience.

Conclusions:

  • Foreign accents increase processing load, leading to a trade-off between uncertainty and recognition effort.
  • Listener experience is a crucial factor in overcoming processing limitations imposed by foreign accents.
  • Findings highlight the adaptive nature of the human auditory system in processing accented speech.