(Not so) Great Expectations: Listening to Foreign-Accented Speech Reduces the Brain’s Anticipatory Processes

(Not so) Great Expectations: Listening to Foreign-Accented Speech Reduces the Brain’s Anticipatory Processes

This study examines the effect of foreign-accented speech on the predictive ability of our brain. Listeners actively anticipate upcoming linguistic information in the speech signal so as to facilitate and reduce processing load. However, it is unclear whether or not listeners also do this when they...

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Main Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Bastien P.-A. Boutonnet, Marianne L. S. De Heer Kloots, Marieke Meelen, Bobby Ruijgrok, Lisa L.-S. Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
prediction
speech perception
sentence comprehension
foreign-accented speech
Dutch
native vs. non-native speech processing
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02143/full

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