The effect of long-term second dialect exposure on sentence transcription in noise

Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Abby WalkerAbstractNinety expatriate and non-migrant listeners in the US and England completed a sentence transcription in noise task (−4 dB SNR), transcribing both English and US speakers. Both non-migrant groups are, relatively, more accurate with their own dialect – they have an own-dialect advantage – and comparatively both expatriate groups show a much smaller advantage, doing better with their non-native dialect than the non-migrants, though critically not worse with their native dialect. Additionally, variation within each subcategory of listener type suggests more fine-grained effects of exposure on transcription accuracy, even for non-migrants. These results show that second dialect exposure d...

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