Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English
We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse). The target stimuli involve ambiguous vowels...
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| description | We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse). The target stimuli involve ambiguous vowels, embedded in a frame that would result in a real word with a KIT or a DRESS vowel and a nonsense word with the alternative vowel; thus, lexical decision responses can reveal which vowel was heard. Our pre-registered design predicted that exposure to the kangaroo would elicit more KIT-consistent responses than exposure to the kiwi. Both experiments showed significant priming effects in which the kangaroo elicited more KIT-consistent responses than the kiwi. The particular locus and details of these effects differed across experiments and participants. Taken together, the experiments reinforce the finding that regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception, but also suggest that the effects are sensitive to experimental design, stimulus acoustics, and individuals’ production and past experience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af67e8259a8e4ed58b3823f53381c5a82023-11-23T15:49:47ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252022-05-0112668410.3390/brainsci12060684Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand EnglishGia Hurring0Jennifer Hay1Katie Drager2Ryan Podlubny3Laura Manhire4Alix Ellis5New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New ZealandNew Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New ZealandDepartment of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1890 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, USADepartment of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G4, CanadaDepartment of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New ZealandDepartment of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New ZealandWe investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse). The target stimuli involve ambiguous vowels, embedded in a frame that would result in a real word with a KIT or a DRESS vowel and a nonsense word with the alternative vowel; thus, lexical decision responses can reveal which vowel was heard. Our pre-registered design predicted that exposure to the kangaroo would elicit more KIT-consistent responses than exposure to the kiwi. Both experiments showed significant priming effects in which the kangaroo elicited more KIT-consistent responses than the kiwi. The particular locus and details of these effects differed across experiments and participants. Taken together, the experiments reinforce the finding that regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception, but also suggest that the effects are sensitive to experimental design, stimulus acoustics, and individuals’ production and past experience.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/6/684primingspeech perceptionsociophoneticslexical decision taskNew Zealand EnglishAustralian English |
| spellingShingle | Gia Hurring Jennifer Hay Katie Drager Ryan Podlubny Laura Manhire Alix Ellis Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English Brain Sciences priming speech perception sociophonetics lexical decision task New Zealand English Australian English |
| title | Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| title_full | Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| title_fullStr | Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| title_short | Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| title_sort | social priming in speech perception revisiting kangaroo kiwi priming in new zealand english |
| topic | priming speech perception sociophonetics lexical decision task New Zealand English Australian English |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/6/684 |
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