Effects of short-term exposure to unfamiliar regional accents: Australians' categorization of London and Yorkshire English consonants

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Shaw, Jason A.
Best, Catherine T.
Mulak, Karen
Docherty, Gerry
Evans, Bronwen G.
Foulkes, Paul
Hay, Jennifer
Al-Tamimi, Jalal
Mair, Katharine
Peek, Mike
Wood, Sophie
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2014
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We evaluated how Australian listeners perceive consonants
spoken in two unfamiliar accents of English (Cockney,
Yorkshire) and how consonant perception is influenced by
short-term exposure to those accents. Results indicate that
Australians misperceive some consonants from these accents
and that short-term pre-exposure to them actually leads to
further degraded performance in consonant categorization for
these unfamiliar accents (relative to native Australian). These
results rule out an account of perceptual adaptation in terms of
the perceptual remapping of one consonant to another.We evaluated how Australian listeners perceive consonants
spoken in two unfamiliar accents of English (Cockney,
Yorkshire) and how consonant perception is influenced by
short-term exposure to those accents. Results indicate that
Australians misperceive some consonants from these accents
and that short-term pre-exposure to them actually leads to
further degraded performance in consonant categorization for
these unfamiliar accents (relative to native Australian). These
results rule out an account of perceptual adaptation in terms of
the perceptual remapping of one consonant to another.
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Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
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Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science