How much do visual cues help listeners in perceiving accented speech?

YI Zheng, AG Samuel - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
It has been documented that lipreading facilitates the understanding of difficult speech, such
as noisy speech and time-compressed speech. However, relatively little work has addressed …

Experience with a talker can transfer across modalities to facilitate lipreading

K Sanchez, JW Dias, LD Rosenblum - Attention, Perception, & …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Rosenblum, Miller, and Sanchez (Psychological Science, 18, 392-396, 2007) found
that subjects first trained to lip-read a particular talker were then better able to perceive the …

Seeing to hear better: evidence for early audio-visual interactions in speech identification

JL Schwartz, F Berthommier, C Savariaux - Cognition, 2004 - Elsevier
Lip reading is the ability to partially understand speech by looking at the speaker's lips. It
improves the intelligibility of speech in noise when audio-visual perception is compared with …

Investigating the impact of lip visibility and talking style on speechreading performance

K Lander, C Capek - Speech communication, 2013 - Elsevier
It has long been known that visual information from a talker's mouth and face plays an
important role in the perception and understanding of spoken language. The reported …

Developmental factors and the non-native speaker effect in auditory-visual speech perception

Y Chen, V Hazan - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The study investigated language and developmental factors in the use of visual information
in audiovisual speech perception in speakers from different language backgrounds …

Visible language in speech perception: Lipreading and reading

DW Massaro, MM Cohen, LA Thompson - Visible Language, 1988 - search.proquest.com
Speech Perception Although speech perception is usually thought of as an auditory process,
it appears to be visual as well. As exemplified by this special volume of Visible Language …

Examining talker effects in the perception of native-and foreign-accented speech

CT McLennan, J González - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2012 - Springer
Understanding the circumstances under which talker (and other types of) variability affects
language perception represents an important area of research in the field of spoken word …

Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech

G Verbeke, E Simon - Lingua, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates how well English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners report
understanding (ie comprehensibility) and actually understand (ie intelligibility) native and …

Variable effects of speakers' visual cues and accent on L2 listening comprehension: A mixed-methods approach

M Algana, DM Hardison - Language Teaching Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Few studies have explored the influence of a speaker's accent and visual (facial and
gestural) cues on second-language (L2) listening comprehension. The current mixed …

Task-dependent consequences of disfluency in perception of native and non-native speech

Z Houghton, M Kato, M Baese-Berk… - Applied …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Silent pauses are a natural part of speech production and have consequences for speech
perception. However, studies have shown mixed results regarding whether listeners process …