The efficiency of cross-dialectal word recognition
Tuinman, A., Mitterer, H., & Cutler, A.
(2011). The efficiency of cross-dialectal word recognition. In
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy (pp. 153-156).
Dialects of the same language can differ in the casual speech
processes they allow; e.g., British English allows the insertion of
[r] at word boundaries in sequences such as saw ice, while
American English does not. In two speeded word recognition
experiments, American listeners heard such British English
sequences; in contrast to non-native listeners, they accurately
perceived intended vowel-initial words even with intrusive [r].
Thus despite input mismatches, cross-dialectal word recognition
benefits from the full power of native-language processing.
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