In his work on the role of the listener in language change, Ohala (1981) suggests that acoustic byproducts of physiological linguistic processes may sometimes be perceived by listeners as linguistically important information, creating a cycle which may ultimately lead to language change. To explore this issue, we investigated anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English, which previous work has shown can exert influence over as much as three vowels’ distance. The perceptibility of such effects at various distances from the influencing vowel was tested using event-related-potentials (ERP) and behavioral methodologies. Even the longest-distance effects were perceptible to some listeners. This group of listeners also provided production data. While the strongest support for a language-change hypothesis like that discussed here would come from a production-perception correlation, this was not found. However, we argue that even in the absence of such a correlation, the present findings are broadly consistent with such an account.
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Tkachman, Oksana, Gracellia Purnomo & Bryan Gick
2021. Repetition Preferences in Two-Handed Balanced Signs: Vestigial Locomotor Central Pattern Generators Shape Sign Language Phonetics and Phonology. Frontiers in Communication 5
Cohen Priva, Uriel & Chelsea Sanker
2020. Natural Leaders: Some Interlocutors Elicit Greater Convergence Across Conversations and Across Characteristics. Cognitive Science 44:10
Pinget, Anne-France, René Kager & Hans Van de Velde
2020. Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing. Language and Speech 63:3 ► pp. 660 ff.
Zellou, Georgia
2017. Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics 61 ► pp. 13 ff.
Harrington, Jonathan, Felicitas Kleber, Ulrich Reubold & Mary Stevens
2016. The Relevance of Context and Experience for the Operation of Historical Sound Change. In Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume II [Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 106], ► pp. 61 ff.
Harrington, Jonathan, Felicitas Kleber & Mary Stevens
2016. The Relationship Between the (Mis)-Parsing of Coarticulation in Perception and Sound Change: Evidence from Dissimilation and Language Acquisition. In Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing [Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 48], ► pp. 15 ff.
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Stevens, Mary & Jonathan Harrington
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2016. On the Origin of Post-Aspirated Stops: Production and Perception of /s/ + Voiceless Stop Sequences in Andalusian Spanish. Laboratory Phonology 7:1
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