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Incidental Auditory Category Training for Language Learning

NCT04509024 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 106

Last updated 2024-07-24

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Summary

The overarching goal of the proposed research is to understand how human listeners learn speech categories. The project takes a prospective approach with adult second-language learners, blending empirical, methodological and theoretical advances from laboratory studies with explicit classroom instruction. The central hypothesis is that incidentally-acquired nonlinguistic perceptual building block categories may support speech perception and production in a second language. The project will advance important theoretical debates about the cross-talk between general auditory representations and speech categories and will provide a novel approach to nudging adult learners off learning plateau typically encountered in classroom instruction.

Conditions

  • Healthy
  • Language

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Incidental training

Training involving non-speech sounds embedded in a video-game.

BEHAVIORAL

Explicit training

Training involving explicit sound and category information

BEHAVIORAL

Classroom training

Structured adult classroom language training.

BEHAVIORAL

Classroom and incidental training

Both classroom and incidental training.

BEHAVIORAL

Classroom and explicit training

Both classroom and explicit training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Seth Wiener, PhD · Carnegie Mellon University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-01
Primary Completion
2022-11-01
Completion
2023-01-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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