In:
Psychological Science, SAGE Publications, Vol. 32, No. 3 ( 2021-03), p. 410-423
Kurzfassung:
What happens to an acoustic signal after it enters the mind of a listener? Previous work has demonstrated that listeners maintain intermediate representations over time. However, the internal structure of such representations—be they the acoustic-phonetic signal or more general information about the probability of possible categories—remains underspecified. We present two experiments using a novel speaker-adaptation paradigm aimed at uncovering the format of speech representations. We exposed adult listeners ( N = 297) to a speaker whose utterances contained acoustically ambiguous information concerning phones (and thus words), and we manipulated the temporal availability of disambiguating cues via visually presented text (presented before or after each utterance). Results from a traditional phoneme-categorization task showed that listeners adapted to a modified acoustic distribution when disambiguating text was provided before but not after the audio. These results support the position that speech representations consist of activation over categories and are inconsistent with direct maintenance of the acoustic-phonetic signal.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0956-7976
,
1467-9280
DOI:
10.1177/0956797620968787
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
SAGE Publications
Publikationsdatum:
2021
ZDB Id:
2022256-7
SSG:
5,2
