Learning to perceive non-native tones via distributional training: Effects of task and acoustic cue weighting

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buir.contributor.authorTuninetti, Alba
buir.contributor.orcidTuninetti, Alba|0000-0002-0087-7756
dc.citation.epage16en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber5en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber12en_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Liquan
dc.contributor.authorYuan, Chi
dc.contributor.authorOng, Jia Hoong
dc.contributor.authorTuninetti, Alba
dc.contributor.authorAntoniou, Mark
dc.contributor.authorCutler, Anne
dc.contributor.authorEscudero, Paola
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T12:01:45Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T12:01:45Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-27
dc.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.description.abstractAs 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.doi10.3390/brainsci12050559en_US
dc.identifier.issn20763425
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/112022
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050559en_US
dc.source.titleBrain Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectAcoustic Cue-Weightingen_US
dc.subjectDiscriminationen_US
dc.subjectDistributional Learningen_US
dc.subjectIdentificationen_US
dc.subjectOddball-EEGen_US
dc.subjectPhonetic Distanceen_US
dc.subjectToneen_US
dc.titleLearning to perceive non-native tones via distributional training: Effects of task and acoustic cue weightingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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