Molly Babel (University of British Columbia) will give a LOC talk at 3:30 pm on Friday, June 16th on Zoom. See the abstract information below.
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63905526459?pwd=NnVETjAvMjRmK0JVc2ppR1hNdzJ0UT09
The own-voice benefit in word recognition
There is a well documented familiarity benefit in spoken word recognition and sentence processing. Simply, listeners show improved performance when presented with familiar languages, accents, and individuals. How does an individual’s own voice factor into the familiarity boost? In this talk, I present the evidence for an own-voice benefit in word recognition in a population of early bilinguals, extending recent work demonstrating an own-voice benefit for late L2 learners (Eger & Reinisch, 2019). The results suggest that the phonetic distributions that undergird phonological contrasts are heavily shaped by one’s own phonetic realization. I’ll discuss the implications of this for our understanding of phonetic knowledge.