Publications by authors named "Sabine Burfin"
Early linguistic experience has an impact on the way we decode audiovisual speech in face-to-face communication. The present study examined whether differences in visual speech decoding could be linked to a broader difference in face processing. To identify a phoneme we have to do an analysis of the speaker's face to focus on the relevant cues for speech decoding (e.
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- We undergo perceptual narrowing for phoneme identification as we specialize in our native language, losing the ability to recognize sounds not present in it.
- A study tested bilingual and monolingual adults on identifying a Bengali phoneme contrast that doesn't exist in their languages, using both audio-only and audiovisual methods.
- Results showed that while both groups struggled in audio-only conditions, they improved in audiovisual settings; however, bilinguals were slower and less accurate, indicating different processing strategies compared to monolinguals.