Abstract In the real world, listeners often find speech in a non-native (L2) accent harder to understand than speech in their own native (L1) accent. In ideal laboratory listening settings, these struggles can become smaller. For this reason, most research on L2 accent processing uses speech-in-noise paradigms to avoid...
Anna M. Czepiel, Holly Bradley, Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden et al.· Cerebral Cortex· 0 citations
While there is growing awareness of the need to account for bilingualism in clinical assessments, there is a dearth of work on speech development adequately considering how input diversity, including bilingualism and accent variation, might affect toddlers’ productions. We recorded 2- and 3-year-olds with varied profil...
E. Shroads, Sophia MacKeigan, Priscilla Fung et al.· Journal of the Acoustical So...· 0 citations
Studies examining accent adaptation in infancy repeatedly find it emerges only around 19 months (e.g., Best et al., 2009; Mulak et al., 2013). Yet standing in contrast to this body of work—and its support for theories that early phonological representations are underspecified and/or exemplar-based—is a single study fin...
E. Shroads, E. K. Johnson· Journal of the Acoustical So...· 0 citations
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