The Effect Of Experience On The Perception And Representation Of Dialect Variant  

Oleh:

Sumner, Meghan ; Samuel, Arthur G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 60 no. 4 (2009), page 487–501.
Topik: Dialect; Speech perception; Spoken word recognition; Variation; Experience; r-Dropping
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The task of recognizing spoken words is notoriously difficult. Once dialectal variation is considered, the difficulty of this task increases. When living in a new dialect region, however, processing difficulties associated with dialectal variation dissipate over time. Through a series of primed lexical decision tasks (form priming, semantic priming, and long-term repetition priming), we examine the general issue of dialectal variation in spoken word recognition, while investigating the role of experience in perception and representation. The main questions we address are: (1) how are cross-dialect variants recognized and stored, and (2) how are these variants accommodated by listeners with different levels of exposure to the dialect? Three claims are made based on the results: (1) dialect production is not always representative of dialect perception and representation, (2) experience strongly affects a listener’s ability to recognize and represent spoken words, and (3) there is a general benefit for variants that are not regionally-marked.

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