Research in the domain of speech perception has tended to focus on the processes that
extract the intended phonetic message from the acoustic signal. However, it is known that, at …

CHAPTER 1 Language is all around us. Most of us spend almost every waking hour doing
something that is language related: talking, listening, reading, memorizing a groceries list …

The most distinctive hallmark of human spoken word recognition (SWR) is its perceptual
robustness to the presence of acoustic variability in the transmission and reception of the …

Publisher Summary Suprasegmental properties of speech, for example those related to
intonation, rhythmical grouping and speech rate, form one class of factors causing acoustic …

Phonemes are the smallest detectable sound units in spoken language. They allow us to
distinguish one syllable (or word) from another. For example, we can distinguish the spoken …

The ultimate goal of language is to communicate meaning. As Marslen-Wilson (1987) put
it,“to understand spoken language is to relate sound to meaning.” As the acoustic events that …

Auditory-word recognition is a remarkably robust aspect of language processing. The
acoustic signal may be distorted and/or disrupted in a wide variety of ways, yet spoken-word …

The recognition of spoken language involves the extraction of acoustic-phonetic information
from the speech signal, and the mapping of this information onto cognitive representations …

In two eye-tracking experiments using the Visual World Paradigm, we examined how
listeners recognize words when faced with speech at lower intensities (40, 50, and 65 dBA) …

In order to gain insight into the interplay between the talker-, listener-, and item-related
factors that influence speech perception, a large multi-talker database of digitally recorded …