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title = "A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing",
author = "Matusevych, Yevgen and
Kamper, Herman and
Schatz, Thomas and
Feldman, Naomi and
Goldwater, Sharon",
editor = "Merlo, Paola and
Tiedemann, Jorg and
Tsarfaty, Reut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.127",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.127",
pages = "1480--1490",
abstract = "Non-native speakers show difficulties with spoken word processing. Many studies attribute these difficulties to imprecise phonological encoding of words in the lexical memory. We test an alternative hypothesis: that some of these difficulties can arise from the non-native speakers{'} phonetic perception. We train a computational model of phonetic learning, which has no access to phonology, on either one or two languages. We first show that the model exhibits predictable behaviors on phone-level and word-level discrimination tasks. We then test the model on a spoken word processing task, showing that phonology may not be necessary to explain some of the word processing effects observed in non-native speakers. We run an additional analysis of the model{'}s lexical representation space, showing that the two training languages are not fully separated in that space, similarly to the languages of a bilingual human speaker.",
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%T A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing
%A Matusevych, Yevgen
%A Kamper, Herman
%A Schatz, Thomas
%A Feldman, Naomi
%A Goldwater, Sharon
%Y Merlo, Paola
%Y Tiedemann, Jorg
%Y Tsarfaty, Reut
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%D 2021
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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Markdown (Informal)
[A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.127) (Matusevych et al., EACL 2021)
ACL
- Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Thomas Schatz, Naomi Feldman, and Sharon Goldwater. 2021. A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 1480–1490, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.