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Speech Cue Weighting and Salience - Training Paradigms

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Training: Prosody (3 features x 6 days x 5 blocks)

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Prosody training (experimental). The goal of the training is to practice the ability to perceive prosodic information in English language speech. The training stimuli are audio recordings of naturalistic speech capturing various prosodic features – phrase boundary, linguistic focus and word stress. The training includes categorisation exercises, in which participants need to categorise each speech sample as belonging to one of the two categories displayed on the screen.

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Training: Vocabulary (6 days x 15 blocks)

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Vocabulary training (control). The goal of the training is to practised English skills with vocabulary boosting exercises matched in length and intensity with the experimental training. Participants need to match pictures, words, and short phrases with their translations. They see an image, a word in Chinese or English, and they need to click on the appropriate English word to name the object, translate the Chinese word or match the English word with its meaning.

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Prosody Perception (multiple speakers)

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Prosody Perception Task. The prosody perception test is a custom-built task designed to measure participants' ability to distinguish different prosodic features (i.e., linguistic focus, phrase boundary and lexical stress).

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Conducted at Birkbeck, University of London & University College London
Published on 10 March 2023