Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation
<|reference_start|>Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation: Acoustic context effects, where surrounding changes in pitch, rate or timbre influence the perception of a sound, are well documented in speech perception, but how they interact with language background remains unclear. Using a reverse-correlation approach, we systematically varied the pitch and speech rate in phrases around different pairs of vowels for second language (L2) speakers of English (/i/-/I/) and French (/u/-/y/), thus reconstructing, in a data-driven manner, the prosodic profiles that bias their perception. Testing English and French speakers (n=25), we showed that vowel perception is in fact influenced by conflicting effects from the surrounding pitch and speech rate: a congruent proximal effect 0.2s pre-target and a distal contrastive effect up to 1s before; and found that L1 and L2 speakers exhibited strikingly similar prosodic profiles in perception. We provide a novel method to investigate acoustic context effects across stimuli, timescales, and acoustic domain.<|reference_end|>
@article{tuttösí2024mmm,
    title={Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first
  and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation},
    author={Paige Tutt"os'i, H. Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Fenqi Wang, Guillaume
  Denis, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05515},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.05515},
    primaryClass={cs.SD cs.CL eess.AS}
}