Adaptation to novel accents: feature-based learning of context-sensitive phonological regularities.
Skoruppa K, Peperkamp S.SourceDepartment of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, London, UK. k.skoruppa@ucl.ac.uk
Cognitive science.Cogn Sci.2011 Mar;35(2):348-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01152.x. Epub 2010 Nov 29.
This paper examines whether adults can adapt to novel accents of their native language that contain unfamiliar context-dependent phonological alternations. In two experiments, French participants listen to short stories read in accented speech. Their knowledge of the accents is then tested in a forc