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SUBMITTER: Kleinschmidt DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6139081 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Topics in cognitive science 20180315 4
Social and linguistic perceptions are linked. On one hand, talker identity affects speech perception. On the other hand, speech itself provides information about a talker's identity. Here, we propose that the same probabilistic knowledge might underlie both socially conditioned linguistic inferences and linguistically conditioned social inferences. Our computational-level approach-the ideal adapter-starts from the idea that listeners use probabilistic knowledge of covariation between social, lin ...[more]