Plasticity in vowel perception and production: A study of accent change in young adults
Plasticity in vowel perception and production: A study of accent change in young adults
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DOI：
10.1121/1.2722209
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发表时间：
2007-06-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Iverson, Paul
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作者：
Evans, Bronwen G.;Iverson, Paul
这项研究调查了来自英格兰北部的大学生的元音产生和感知的变化，因为个人将他们的口音从地区性标准调整到受过教育的标准。受试者在两年的时间里定期测试他们的生产和感知能力：在开始上大学之前，3个月后，以及在大学一年级和二年级结束时。在每一次测试中，受试者被记录阅读一组实验单词和一篇短文。受试者还完成了两个知觉任务；他们选择了嵌入英语北部或南部重音载体句子中的元音的最佳样本位置，并识别了噪音中带有北部或南部英语口音的单词。结果表明，在语言发展的后期，即成年早期，受试者在进入大学后改变了他们的口音。随着时间的推移，知觉没有可靠的变化，但有证据表明受试者之间存在联系，即发音和知觉之间的联系；受试者选择的元音与他们产生的元音相似，而且带有更多南方英语口音的受试者在噪音中识别南方英语语音的能力更强。(C)2007年美国声学学会。
This study investigated changes in vowel production and perception among university students from the north of England, as individuals adapt their accent from regional to educated norms. Subjects were tested in their production and perception at regular intervals over a period of 2 years: before beginning university, 3 months later, and at the end of their first and second years at university. At each testing session, subjects were recorded reading a set of experimental words and a short passage. Subjects also completed two perceptual tasks; they chose best exemplar locations for vowels embedded in either northern or southern English accented carrier sentences and identified words in noise spoken with either a northern or southern English accent. The results demonstrated that subjects at a late stage in their language development, early adulthood, changed their spoken accent after attending university. There were no reliable changes in perception over time, but there was evidence for a between-subjects, link between production and perception; subjects chose similar vowels to the ones they produced, and subjects who had a more southern English accent were better at identifying southern English speech in noise. (c) 2007 Acoustical Society of America.