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Infants' learning of novel segments is modulated by prosody
Authors: Chládková, Kateřina ; Podlipský, V.J. ; Nudga, Natalia ; Paillereau, Nikola ; Kynčlová, Kateřina ; Šimáčková, Š.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences /20./, Praha (CZ), 20230807
Year: 2023
Language: eng
Abstract: Young infants recognize atypical realisations of native-language speech. Later they learn words better from native-accented talkers. However, 6-month-olds preferentially listen to unfamiliar speech. We tested whether the learning of new vowels matches 6-month-olds’ listening preferences, being more effective from nonnative-accented speech. We exposed Czech six-month-olds to delexicalised utterances with consonants replaced by [f] and vowels by 405 tokens sampled from a bimodal [ɛ]-[æ] distribution, a contrast absent from Czech, and with either native or atypical rhythm. Discrimination of [ɛ]-[æ] was then tested in an alternating/non-alternating paradigm. Longer first-look duration to non-alternating than to alternating trials – indicating a learning effect – was found in infants familiarised with the novel contrast in atypical rhythm, such effect was not\ndetected after familiarisation with native rhythm. Six-month-olds thus more effectively exploit distributional information about novel vowels from non-native rhythm, which matches their previously reported preferences for listening to novel over familiar accents.
Keywords: distributional learning; infancy; non-native rhythm; selective learning; vowels
Project no.: GA21-09797S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ISBN 978-80-908114-2-3
Note: Související webová stránka: https://www.icphs2023.org/programme/proceedings/
Institution: Institute of Psychology AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available on demand via the digital repository of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350920
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-539273
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Authors: Chládková, Kateřina ; Podlipský, V.J. ; Nudga, Natalia ; Paillereau, Nikola ; Kynčlová, Kateřina ; Šimáčková, Š.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences /20./, Praha (CZ), 20230807
Year: 2023
Language: eng
Abstract: Young infants recognize atypical realisations of native-language speech. Later they learn words better from native-accented talkers. However, 6-month-olds preferentially listen to unfamiliar speech. We tested whether the learning of new vowels matches 6-month-olds’ listening preferences, being more effective from nonnative-accented speech. We exposed Czech six-month-olds to delexicalised utterances with consonants replaced by [f] and vowels by 405 tokens sampled from a bimodal [ɛ]-[æ] distribution, a contrast absent from Czech, and with either native or atypical rhythm. Discrimination of [ɛ]-[æ] was then tested in an alternating/non-alternating paradigm. Longer first-look duration to non-alternating than to alternating trials – indicating a learning effect – was found in infants familiarised with the novel contrast in atypical rhythm, such effect was not\ndetected after familiarisation with native rhythm. Six-month-olds thus more effectively exploit distributional information about novel vowels from non-native rhythm, which matches their previously reported preferences for listening to novel over familiar accents.
Keywords: distributional learning; infancy; non-native rhythm; selective learning; vowels
Project no.: GA21-09797S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ISBN 978-80-908114-2-3
Note: Související webová stránka: https://www.icphs2023.org/programme/proceedings/
Institution: Institute of Psychology AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available on demand via the digital repository of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350920
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-539273
The record appears in these collections:
Research > Institutes ASCR > Institute of Psychology
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