Foreign Subtitles Help but Native-Language Subtitles Harm Foreign Speech Perception
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Foreign Subtitles Help but Native-Language Subtitles Harm Foreign Speech Perception
Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about how words ought to sound) to learn how to interpret unusual speech-sounds. We therefore investigated whether subtitles, which provide lexical information, support perceptual learning about foreign speech. Du...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007785