Automatic sound encoding is sensitive to language familiarity: Evidence from English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136582
Abstract: We investigated whether language familiarity has a modulatory effect on automatic sound encoding in the auditory brainstem. To test this, we measured frequency-following responses (FFRs) to repeating speech syllables that played in the background while… read more here.
Keywords: sound encoding; automatic sound; language familiarity; language ... See more keywords
Abstraction and the (Misnamed) Language Familiarity Effect
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12520
Abstract: Talkers are recognized more accurately if they are speaking the listeners' native language rather than an unfamiliar language. This "language familiarity effect" has been shown not to depend upon comprehension and must instead involve language… read more here.
Keywords: familiarity; variety; familiarity effect; language familiarity ... See more keywords
Algorithmic voice transformations reveal the phonological basis of language-familiarity effects in cross-cultural emotion judgments
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285028
Abstract: People have a well-described advantage in identifying individuals and emotions in their own culture, a phenomenon also known as the other-race and language-familiarity effect. However, it is unclear whether native-language advantages arise from genuinely enhanced… read more here.
Keywords: algorithmic voice; language; language familiarity; cross cultural ... See more keywords