We ask whether speakers can adapt their productions when feedback from their
interlocutors suggests that previous productions were perceptually confusable. To address …

Empirically-observed word frequency effects in regular sound change present a puzzle: how
can high-frequency words change faster than low-frequency words in some cases, slower in …

Grammatical encoding is one of the earliest stages in linguistic encoding. One broadly
accepted view holds that grammatical encoding is primarily or exclusively affected by …

Abstract Language comprehension requires successfully navigating linguistic variability.
One hypothesis for how listeners manage variability is that they rapidly update their …

Since the early 2000s, several event-related potential studies have challenged the
assumption that we always use syntactic contextual information to influence semantic …

Phonological development is sometimes seen as a process of learning sounds, or forming
phonological categories, and then combining sounds to build words, with the evidence …

One of the persistent puzzles in understanding human speech perception is how listeners
cope with talker variability. One thing that might help listeners is structure in talker variability …

Despite strong evidence for prediction during language comprehension, the underlying
mechanisms, and the extent to which they are specific to language, remain unclear. Re …

Recently processed syntactic information is likely to play a fundamental role in online
sentence comprehension. For example, there is now a good deal of evidence that the …

A diverse set of empirical findings indicate that word predictability in context influences the
fine-grained details of both speech production and comprehension. In particular, lower …