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Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems

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Listeners perceptually assimilate nonnative phones to native phonemes, but do they do so with unfamiliar accents of their own language? We assessed Australian (Aus) listeners' assimilation of vowels in two unfamiliar English accents, and whether prior short-term exposure to the other accent would yield any adaptation to its vowels. Participants categorized the vowels of nonce words spoken in Aus or one of the unfamiliar accents (London [Lon]; Yorkshire [Yks]), after first hearing a story told round-robin by multiple speakers of Aus or of the other accent. Here we address six vowels with differing assimilation predictions for Lon vs. Yks. Results indicate that perceptual assimilation does contribute to perception of vowel variation, and that brief exposure to an unfamiliar accent can yield some degree of adaptation to its vowels.
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hal-03741527 , version 1 (01-08-2022)

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Cathy Best, Jason Shaw, Karen Mulak, Gerry Docherty, Bronwen Evans, et al.. Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Aug 2015, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.0964. ⟨hal-03741527⟩
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