Gradient language dominance affects talker learning
| Autor: | Sarah C. Creel, Micah R. Bregman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Speech perception Bilingualism Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject First language Multilingualism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Recognition (Psychology) Language and Linguistics Young Adult Information and Computing Sciences Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Learning Language dominance Talker recognition Communication and Culture Voice identification Neuroscience of multilingualism Language media_common Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Age Factors Neuropsychology Experimental Psychology Recognition Psychology Speaker recognition Linguistics Age of Acquisition Speech Perception Voice Music perception Female Psychology Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | Cognition, vol 130, iss 1 |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.010 |
| Popis: | Traditional conceptions of spoken language assume that speech recognition and talker identification are computed separately. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies imply some separation between the two faculties, but recent perceptual studies suggest better talker recognition in familiar languages than unfamiliar languages. A familiar-language benefit in talker recognition potentially implies strong ties between the two domains. However, little is known about the nature of this language familiarity effect. The current study investigated the relationship between speech and talker processing by assessing bilingual and monolingual listeners' ability to learn voices as a function of language familiarity and age of acquisition. Two effects emerged. First, bilinguals learned to recognize talkers in their first language (Korean) more rapidly than they learned to recognize talkers in their second language (English), while English-speaking participants showed the opposite pattern (learning English talkers faster than Korean talkers). Second, bilinguals' learning rate for talkers in their second language (English) correlated with age of English acquisition. Taken together, these results suggest that language background materially affects talker encoding, implying a tight relationship between speech and talker representations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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