When encountering speakers whose accents differ from the listener's own, listeners initially
show a processing cost, but that cost can be attenuated after short term exposure. The extent …

How fast can listeners adapt to unfamiliar foreign accents? Clarke and Garrett [J. Acoust.
Soc. Am. 116, 3647–3658 (2004)](CG04) reported that native-English listeners adapted to …

Recent advances in probabilistic pragmatics have achieved considerable success in
modeling speakers' and listeners' pragmatic reasoning as probabilistic inference. However …

The present study examines whether listeners flexibly adapt to unfamiliar speech patterns
such as those encountered in foreign-accented English vowels, where the relative …

Theorizing about the architecture of speaking has a long history (see Levelt, 2013), ranging
from the classic work of Wernicke (1874), Lichtheim (1885), and Wundt (1900) in the 19th …

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily
generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech …

This review provides a summary of the most recent advances on the study of how prosody is
used during language comprehension. Prosody is characterized as an abstract structure …

Listeners generally categorize speech sounds in a gradient manner. However, recent work,
using a visual analogue scaling (VAS) task, suggests that some listeners show more …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

Speech comprehension involves recovering a speaker's intended meaning from the speech
sounds that they produce. While the sensory-driven components of this process have been …