Processing focus and accent across dialects.
Résumé
Previous research has shown that native listeners of British English integrate semantic and prosodic cues such that the presence of both sources of information does not facilitate phoneme detection. In the study reported here, we show that listeners of General South African English listening to British English material show a different pattern, using both prosodic and semantic information in phoneme detection. As previous research has shown that listening to regionally-accented speech affects processing at different levels, we attribute this difference to the fact that these listeners are listening to a non-native dialect. Non-native listeners (e.g. Dutch listeners listening to English material) show a similar processing mechanism in using prosodic and semantic information independently. It thus seems that processing mechanisms are adapted not only when listening to a foreign language (even for highly proficient speakers of a foreign language) but also when listening to a different dialect of the same language.
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