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PSY 357 Cross-Linguistic Perception of Speech and Non-speech
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Faculty:
Randy L. Diehl, Ph.D.
Contact:
Jessica Hay hay@psy.utexas.edu
Description:
We are interested in the broad question of how experience with the sounds in language might change our perception of other non-native speech and non-speech sounds. It has already been shown that experience with a particular language can affect how we hear speech sounds. For example, adult speakers of English can hear the difference between the English /r/ and /l/ sounds, and group them into two different categories. The Japanese language collapses both /r/ and /l/ into the same category and Japanese speakers cannot hear the difference between English /r/ and /l/, even though Japanese babies CAN hear the difference between English /r/ and /l/. That is, with experience with the Japanese language, Japanese speakers lose the ability to perceive the difference between English /r/ and /l/. The goal of this present study is to investigate how experience with a particular language (in this case, English or Spanish) affects not only the perception of speech sounds, but also how linguistic experience affects the perception of non-speech sounds.
Qualifications:
I am looking for a Spanish-English bilingual to help me run a study with monolingual Spanish speakers. Schedule is flexible.
Duties:
As this is meant to be a learning experience, I would like you to be involved with every step of the research process, from assisting in scheduling and running subjects to doing data analysis. Although your main duties would involve scheduling and running subjects, you might also be asked to assist with some spoken and written English-Spanish-English translation.
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