Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent codetermine speed of perceptual adaptation

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 537-556

  Witteman, Marijt J ^a,b   Weber, Andrea ^a,b,c   McQueen, James M ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross modal priming; Foreign accented speech; German accented Dutch; Perceptual learning; Short and long term experience

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REPETITION PRIMING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPETITION PRIMING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875973213     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0404-y     Document Type: Article

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