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

For nearly 25 years, researchers have recognized the rich and numerous facets of native
perception of non‐native speech, driving a large, and growing, body of work that has shed …

Though the term NATIVE SPEAKER/SIGNER is frequently used in language research, it is
inconsistently conceptualized. Factors, such as age, order, and context of acquisition, in …

This study conceptually replicated and extended Reid, Trofimovich, and O'Brien (2019), who
found that native English speakers could be biased positively (or negatively) relative to a …

How we comprehend foreign-accented speech: Learning to generalize across talkers ! Page 1
Multiple (Accent): 5 different accented speakers Crystal Lee*, Lauren Oey*, Emily Simon*, Xin …

Sociolinguistic research shows that listeners' expectations of speakers influence their
interpretation of the speech, yet this is often ignored in cognitive models of language …

It has been extensively proved that language, besides its purely formal component, has a
social component that affects the life and attitudes of every human being. Language is …

The existence of the Language Familiarity Effect (LFE), where talkers of a familiar language
are easier to identify than talkers of an unfamiliar language, is well‐documented and …

Talkers in a second language can readily be identified as speaking with a foreign accent,
characterized by both specific and more general deviations from the phonology of a target …

Listeners struggle to identify talkers with a different accent than their own, a phenomenon
known as the Other Accent Effect (OAE). But for reasons that are not well understood, the …