{"title":"Comparing pre-linguistic normalization models against US English listeners’ vowel perception","authors":"Anna Persson, Florian Jaeger","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0037/000579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0037/000579","url":null,"abstract":"One of the central computational challenges for speech perception is that talkers differ in pronunciation--i.e., how they map linguistic categories and meanings onto the acoustic signal. Yet, listeners typically overcome these difficulties within minutes (Clarke & Garrett, 2004; Xie et al., 2018). The mechanisms that underlie these adaptive abilities remain unclear. One influential hypothesis holds that listeners achieve robust speech perception across talkers through low-level pre-linguistic normalization. We investigate the role of normalization in the perception of L1-US English vowels. We train ideal observers (IOs) on unnormalized or normalized acoustic cues using a phonetic database of 8 /h-VOWEL-d/ words of US English (N = 1240 recordings from 16 talkers, Xie & Jaeger, 2020). All IOs had 0 DFs in predicting perception—i.e., their predictions are completely determined by pronunciation statistics. We compare the IOs’ predictions against L1-US English listeners’ 8-way categorization responses for /h-VOWEL-d/ words in a web-based experiment. We find that (1) pre-linguistic normalization substantially improves the fit to human responses from 74% to 90% of best-possible performance (chance = 12.5%); (2) the best-performing normalization accounts centered and/or scaled formants by talker; and (3) general purpose normalization (C-CuRE, McMurray & Jongman, 2011) performed as well as vowel-specific normalization.","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124711854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sentence repetition as a function of episodic buffer: a pilot study in Croatian","authors":"Mateja Gabaj, Jelena Kuvač Kraljević","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0018/000560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0018/000560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124749732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of presentation modality in sentence processing","authors":"D. Chernova, A. Novozhilov, Natalia Sliousar","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0010/000552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0010/000552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123224047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listeners’ categorisation behaviour correlates with gradient changes in exposure statistics","authors":"Maryann Tan, Rachel Sabatello, Iva Savic, Florian Jaeger","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0043/000585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0043/000585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126710865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four-stage evolution of Jìn Chinese entering tones: from Lǚliáng to Bìngzhōu","authors":"Yang Wei","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0048/000590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0048/000590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128921404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implicit causality in Romanian interpersonal verbs","authors":"S. Lindemann, M. Matei","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0027/000569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0027/000569","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130316191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topicalization out of English and Mandarin if-clauses and that-clauses","authors":"Ruihua Mao, Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth, E. Gibson","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0032/000574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0032/000574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"855 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121349139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Idiomaticity as a tool to explore automaticity and control in bilinguals and translators","authors":"Giulia Togato, T. Bajo, P. Macizo","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0044/000586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0044/000586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116586213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classifier versus taxonomic relations in a similarity judgement task","authors":"Jiahuan Zhang","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0052/000594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0052/000594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123482540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The L1 influence on the processing of L2 tense-aspect by L2 learners","authors":"Yu Liu","doi":"10.36505/exling-2022/13/0028/000570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2022/13/0028/000570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":430803,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116955891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}