Does imitation facilitate word recognition in a non-native regional accent?
We asked to what extent phonetic convergence across speakers may facilitate later word recognition. Northern-French participants showed both a clear phonetic convergence effect towards Southern French in a word-repetition task, and a bias towards the phonemic system of their own variety in the recog...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00480/full |