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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Perception
  • Speech Science

Background:

  • Language experience influences voice learning, a phenomenon known as the language familiarity effect (LFE).
  • The specific linguistic experiences required to elicit the LFE remain incompletely understood.
  • Investigating voice learning across different language backgrounds can elucidate the factors contributing to the LFE.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically investigate the necessary experiences for the language familiarity effect (LFE) in voice learning.
  • To examine how language-specific familiarity, tone language experience, and general multilingualism impact voice learning and generalization.
  • To differentiate between language-general and language-specific mechanisms in talker-voice association.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a talker-voice association paradigm with Cantonese-English bilingual voices.
  • Trained listeners in either Cantonese or English and tested generalization on both languages.
  • Compared voice learning performance across four listener groups: English Monolingual, Cantonese-English Multilingual, Tone Multilingual, and Non-tone Multilingual.

Main Results:

  • Listener performance varied significantly across the four language background groups, supporting the existence of the LFE.
  • Evidence suggests two primary voice learning mechanisms: one extracting language-general information for robust cross-linguistic generalization, and another extracting language-specific information for efficient within-language learning.
  • Tone language experience and general multilingualism appear to play distinct roles in modulating voice learning and generalization abilities.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides empirical support for the language familiarity effect (LFE) in voice learning.
  • Voice learning involves both the extraction of language-general acoustic-phonetic features and language-specific cues.
  • Multilingual experience, particularly with tonal languages, enhances the ability to generalize voice learning across different linguistic contexts.