?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Perceptual+adjustment+to+time-compressed+Speech%3A+a%0Across-linguistic+study&rft.creator=Pallier%2C+Christophe&rft.creator=Sebastian-Gall%C3%A9s%2C+Nuria&rft.creator=Dupoux%2C+Emmanuel&rft.creator=Mehler%2C+Jacques&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=revious+research+has+shown+that%2C+when+hearers+listen+to+artificially+speeded+speech%2C+their+performance+improves+over+the+course+of+10-15+sentences%2C+as+if+their+perceptual+system+was+%22adapting%22+to+these+fast+rates+of+speech.+In+this+paper%2C+we+further+investigate+the+mechanisms+that+are+responsible+for+such+effects.+In+Experiment+1%2C+we+report+that%2C+for+bilingual+speakers+of+Catalan+and+Spanish%2C+exposure+to%0Acompressed+sentences+in+either+language+improves+performance+on+sentences+in+the+other+language.+Experiment+2+reports+that+Catalan%2FSpanish+transfer+of+performance+occurs+even+in+monolingual+speakers+of+Spanish+who+do+not+understand+Catalan.+In+Experiment+3%2C+we+study+another+pair+of+languages--namely%2C+English+and+French--and+report+no+transfer+of+adaptation+between+these+two+languages+for+English-French+bilinguals.+Experiment+4%2C+with+monolingual+English+speakers%2C+assesses+transfer+of+adaptation+from+French%2C+Dutch%2C+and+English+toward+English.+Here+we+find+that+there+is+no+adaptation+from+French+and+intermediate+adaptation+from+Dutch.+We+discuss+the+locus+of+the+adaptation+to+compressed+speech+and+relate+our+findings+to+other+cross-linguistic+studies+in+speech+perception.%0A&rft.date=1998-07&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F930%2F3%2Fcomp97.pdf&rft.identifier=++Pallier%2C+Christophe+and+Sebastian-Gall%C3%A9s%2C+Nuria+and+Dupoux%2C+Emmanuel+and+Mehler%2C+Jacques++(1998)+Perceptual+adjustment+to+time-compressed+Speech%3A+a+cross-linguistic+study.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F930%2F