Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have provided a detailed picture of the early
time‐course of speech perception. In this review, we highlight this work, placing it within the …

The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring
primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies …

Abstract The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) is a powerful experimental paradigm for
language research. Listeners respond to speech in a “visual world” containing potential …

Listeners activate speech-sound categories in a gradient way, and this information is
maintained and affects activation of items at higher levels of processing (McMurray et al …

Efficient word recognition depends on the ability to overcome competition from overlapping
words. The nature of the overlap depends on the input modality: spoken words have …

The efficiency of spoken word recognition is essential for real-time communication. There is
consensus that this efficiency relies on an implicit process of activating multiple word …

Recent studies have documented substantial variability among typical listeners in how
gradiently they categorize speech sounds, and this variability in categorization gradience …

Acceptability judgments are a primary source of evidence in formal linguistic research.
Within the generative linguistic tradition, these judgments are attributed to evaluation of …

Listeners readily anticipate upcoming sentence constituents, however little is known about
prediction when the input is suboptimal, such as for children with hearing loss (HL). Here we …

A classic problem in spoken language comprehension is how listeners perceive speech as
being composed of discrete words, given the variable time‐course of information in …