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Record W4408918469 · doi:10.1515/lingvan-2024-0247

Asymmetry in French speech-in-noise perception: the effects of native dialect and cross-dialectal exposure

2025· article· en· W4408918469 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueLinguistics Vanguard · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAsymmetrySpeech perceptionPerceptionLinguisticsNoise (video)PsychologySpeech recognitionAcousticsAudiologyComputer sciencePhysicsArtificial intelligencePhilosophyMedicine

Abstract

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Abstract Research has shown that speakers’ native production patterns can change after living in adulthood in a region where a second dialect (D2) of their native language is spoken, yet relatively little is known about how speech perception changes after postadolescent D2 exposure. This study explores this topic by examining how varying degrees of exposure to Quebec French and Hexagonal French affect comprehension of speech in these dialects. A speech-in-noise perception experiment was conducted among mobile and nonmobile speakers of Quebec and Hexagonal French to test the competing effects of native dialect and D2 exposure on cross-dialectal speech perception. Results show an own-dialect advantage for all groups in their comprehension of speech in noise, though this advantage is smaller for the mobile groups, particularly for the mobile Hexagonal French listeners. An effect of D2 exposure on D2 perception is also revealed for the mobile Hexagonal listeners but not for the Québécois listeners, indicating an asymmetry in cross-dialectal perception. These findings suggest that, while phonological representations for the native dialect remain robust, processing of D2 speech can improve after extended, postadolescent exposure to this dialect. Furthermore, the extent of this adaptation may be modulated by mobile listeners’ prior experience with this dialect.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.512

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.340 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it