Learning to perceive non-native tones via distributional training: Effects of task and acoustic cue weighting
buir.contributor.author | Tuninetti, Alba | |
buir.contributor.orcid | Tuninetti, Alba|0000-0002-0087-7756 | |
dc.citation.epage | 16 | en_US |
dc.citation.issueNumber | 5 | en_US |
dc.citation.spage | 1 | en_US |
dc.citation.volumeNumber | 12 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Liquan | |
dc.contributor.author | Yuan, Chi | |
dc.contributor.author | Ong, Jia Hoong | |
dc.contributor.author | Tuninetti, Alba | |
dc.contributor.author | Antoniou, Mark | |
dc.contributor.author | Cutler, Anne | |
dc.contributor.author | Escudero, Paola | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-02T12:01:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-02T12:01:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-27 | |
dc.department | Department of Psychology | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | As many distributional learning (DL) studies have shown, adult listeners can achieve discrimination of a difficult non-native contrast after a short repetitive exposure to tokens falling at the extremes of that contrast. Such studies have shown using behavioural methods that a short distributional training can induce perceptual learning of vowel and consonant contrasts. However, much less is known about the neurological correlates of DL, and few studies have examined non-native lexical tone contrasts. Here, Australian-English speakers underwent DL training on a Mandarin tone contrast using behavioural (discrimination, identification) and neural (oddball-EEG) tasks, with listeners hearing either a bimodal or a unimodal distribution. Behavioural results show that listeners learned to discriminate tones after both unimodal and bimodal training; while EEG responses revealed more learning for listeners exposed to the bimodal distribution. Thus, perceptual learning through exposure to brief sound distributions (a) extends to non-native tonal contrasts, and (b) is sensitive to task, phonetic distance, and acoustic cue-weighting. Our findings have implications for models of how auditory and phonetic constraints influence speech learning. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. | en_US |
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dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/brainsci12050559 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 20763425 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/112022 | |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050559 | en_US |
dc.source.title | Brain Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject | Acoustic Cue-Weighting | en_US |
dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject | Distributional Learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Identification | en_US |
dc.subject | Oddball-EEG | en_US |
dc.subject | Phonetic Distance | en_US |
dc.subject | Tone | en_US |
dc.title | Learning to perceive non-native tones via distributional training: Effects of task and acoustic cue weighting | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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