Performance pay and non-native language comprehension: Can we learn to understand better when we’re paid to listen?
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Published:2023-07
Issue:4
Volume:44
Page:593-609
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ISSN:0142-7164
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Container-title:Applied Psycholinguistics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Applied Psycholinguistics
Author:
Afghani Chasen,
Baese-Berk Melissa M.ORCID,
Waddell Glen R.
Abstract
AbstractNon-native speech is difficult for native listeners to understand. While listeners can learn to understand non-native speech after exposure, it is unclear how to optimize this learning. Experimental subjects transcribed non-native speech and were paid either a flat rate or based on their performance. Participants who were paid based on performance demonstrated improved performance overall and faster learning than participants who were paid a flat rate. These results suggest that exposure alone is not sufficient to optimize learning of non-native speech and that current models of this process must be revised to account for the effects of motivation and incentive.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology