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    "pk": 25831,
    "title": "General Language Ability Predicts Talker Identification",
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    "abstract": "Individuals can use both linguistic and non-linguistic features\nof the speech signal to identify talkers. For instance, listeners\nhave more difficulty identifying talkers in unfamiliar\nlanguages compared to a native language (language\nfamiliarity effect), implying that language-specific knowledge\naids talker identification. In the present study, the source of\nthe language familiarity benefit on talker identification was\ninvestigated as listeners identified talkers in their native\nlanguage as well as non-native languages. Experiment 1 was\ndesigned to explore the influence of L2 proficiency on talker\nidentification across languages. Experiment 2 further\ninvestigated individual differences in L1 phonetic perception\nand their contribution to talker identification by comparing\nEnglish listeners’ performance across different language\nconditions that varied in the availability of linguistic cues.\nResults imply that familiarity with a specific language (L1 or\nL2) did not explain individual variation in language\nfamiliarity effect. Rather, in addition to the native language\nbenefit, talker identification may be supported by general\nsensitivity to sound structures in language, modulated by the\navailability of higher-level linguistic information",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "talker identification; language proficiency;\nspeech perception; bilingualism; individual differences"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17d1t53h",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Xin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xie",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Connecticut",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Emily",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Myers",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Connecticut",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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