Speaker and Accent Variation Are Handled Differently: Evidence in Native and Non-Native Listeners.

Listeners are able to cope with between-speaker variability in speech that stems from anatomical sources (i.e. individual and sex differences in vocal tract size) and sociolinguistic sources (i.e. accents). We hypothesized that listeners adapt to these two types of variation differently because prio...

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Main Authors: Buddhamas Kriengwatana, Josephine Terry, Kateřina Chládková, Paola Escudero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4911083?pdf=render