@inproceedings{6b536ea0dfc94db68a83dc36efcbd564,
title = "Acoustic distance explains speaker versus accent normalization in infancy",
abstract = "Acoustic/phonetic differences exist in cross-speaker and crossaccent speech. Young infants generally recognize speech across speakers but not across speakers of different accents. We examined how Australian English infants discriminated Dutch vowels produced by two speakers of the same accent, and by two speakers of two different accents. Acoustic analysis showed that the acoustic distance between samevowel tokens produced by speakers of different accents was larger than between those produced by speakers of the same accent. Infants demonstrated greater difference in looking time to an accent than a speaker change, indicating that they noticed a difference in a vowel produced in a different accent more than one produced by another speaker with the same accent. This supports the hypothesis that acoustic distance underlies the relative ease in handling speaker versus accent variation.",
keywords = "speech perception, English language, Dutch language, vowels, variation",
author = "Paola Escudero and Mulak, \{Karen E.\} and Samra Alispahic",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association",
pages = "80--83",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2014), 2-5 December 2014, Rydges Latimer Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 02-12-2014",
}