I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants

We examined infants’ sensitivity to articulatory organ congruency between audio-only and silent-video consonants (lip vs. tongue tip closure) to evaluate three theoretical accounts of audio-visual perceptual development for speech: 1) learned audio-visual associations; 2) intersensory perceptual nar...

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Main Authors: Best, C., Kroos, Christian, Irwin, J.
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Format: Conference Paper
Published: ISCA 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15346
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description We examined infants’ sensitivity to articulatory organ congruency between audio-only and silent-video consonants (lip vs. tongue tip closure) to evaluate three theoretical accounts of audio-visual perceptual development for speech: 1) learned audio-visual associations; 2) intersensory perceptual narrowing; 3) amodal perception of articulatory gestures. Effects of language experience were investigated in 4- vs. 11- month-olds’ cross-modal perception of native (English stops) and nonnative (Tigrinya ejectives) consonant contrasts. The 4- month-olds showed an articulator-congruency preference for both native and nonnative consonants, but it was constrained by trial order. The 11-month-olds’ more complex cross-modal responses differed for native vs. nonnative speech, suggesting an effect of increased native language experience. Results are at odds with associative learning and perceptual narrowing, but consistent with experiential tuning of amodal perception for two distinct articulators.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-153462017-01-30T11:49:22Z I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants Best, C. Kroos, Christian Irwin, J. - talking faces infant speech perception intermodal perception nonnative speech perception articulatory phonology We examined infants’ sensitivity to articulatory organ congruency between audio-only and silent-video consonants (lip vs. tongue tip closure) to evaluate three theoretical accounts of audio-visual perceptual development for speech: 1) learned audio-visual associations; 2) intersensory perceptual narrowing; 3) amodal perception of articulatory gestures. Effects of language experience were investigated in 4- vs. 11- month-olds’ cross-modal perception of native (English stops) and nonnative (Tigrinya ejectives) consonant contrasts. The 4- month-olds showed an articulator-congruency preference for both native and nonnative consonants, but it was constrained by trial order. The 11-month-olds’ more complex cross-modal responses differed for native vs. nonnative speech, suggesting an effect of increased native language experience. Results are at odds with associative learning and perceptual narrowing, but consistent with experiential tuning of amodal perception for two distinct articulators. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15346 ISCA restricted
spellingShingle talking faces
infant speech perception
intermodal perception
nonnative speech perception
articulatory phonology
Best, C.
Kroos, Christian
Irwin, J.
I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title_full I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title_fullStr I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title_full_unstemmed I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title_short I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
title_sort i can see what you said: infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants
topic talking faces
infant speech perception
intermodal perception
nonnative speech perception
articulatory phonology
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15346