Intelligibility measures, which assess the number of words or phonemes a listener correctly
transcribes or repeats, are commonly used metrics for speech perception research. While …

Comprehending speech with the existence of background noise is of great importance for
human life. In the past decades, a large number of psychological, cognitive and …

Children encounter artificial intelligence, eg, voice assistants, at an increasingly younger
age. However, we know far too little about children's communicative behavior with a voice …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

Listeners entertain hypotheses about how social characteristics affect a speaker's
pronunciation. While some of these hypotheses may be representative of a demographic …

Extensive work in speech perception indicates that given the same speech signal, listeners
behave differently when viewing East Asian faces compared to Caucasian faces. An …

Prior work demonstrates that exposure to speakers of the same accent facilitates
comprehension of a novel talker with the same accent (accent-specific learning). Moreover …

There is a consensus in psycholinguistic research that listening to unfamiliar speech
constitutes a challenging listening situation. In this commentary, we explore the problems …

This paper investigates the use of Nigerian English in lingua-franca interaction in Germany,
focussing on the perspective of the German listener. Fifty-eight German-speaking …

Prior research has shown that visual information, such as a speaker's perceived race or
ethnicity, prompts listeners to expect a specific sociophonetic pattern (“social priming”) …