| Title: |
Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English |
| Authors: |
Gia Hurring, Jennifer Hay, Katie Drager, Ryan Podlubny, Laura Manhire, Alix Ellis |
| Source: |
Brain Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 6, p 684 (2022) |
| Publisher Information: |
MDPI AG, 2022. |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Subject Terms: |
priming, speech perception, sociophonetics, lexical decision task, New Zealand English, Australian English, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571 |
| More Details: |
We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse). The target stimuli involve ambiguous vowels, embedded in a frame that would result in a real word with a KIT or a DRESS vowel and a nonsense word with the alternative vowel; thus, lexical decision responses can reveal which vowel was heard. Our pre-registered design predicted that exposure to the kangaroo would elicit more KIT-consistent responses than exposure to the kiwi. Both experiments showed significant priming effects in which the kangaroo elicited more KIT-consistent responses than the kiwi. The particular locus and details of these effects differed across experiments and participants. Taken together, the experiments reinforce the finding that regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception, but also suggest that the effects are sensitive to experimental design, stimulus acoustics, and individuals’ production and past experience. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2076-3425 |
| Relation: |
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/6/684; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3425 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/brainsci12060684 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/af67e8259a8e4ed58b3823f53381c5a8 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.f67e8259a8e4ed58b3823f53381c5a8 |
| Database: |
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