The social perception and evaluation of language are key elements in sociolinguistic
phenomena. While perceptual studies have long played a role in the study of linguistic …

Speech is a complex auditory signal that contains multiple layers of linguistic and non‐
linguistic structure. Perceivers are exquisitely sensitive to this layered structure and extract …

The task of recognizing spoken words is notoriously difficult. Once dialectal variation is
considered, the difficulty of this task increases. When living in a new dialect region, however …

Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that
cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or “tags,” can invade …

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 …

Listeners can explicitly categorize unfamiliar talkers by regional dialect with above-chance
performance under ideal listening conditions. However, the extent to which this important …

Accent is a potent cue to social categorization and stereotyping. An important agent of
accent-based stereotype socialization is the media. The present study is the first quantitative …

This study examines children's ability to detect accent-related information in connected
speech. British English children aged 5 and 7 years old were asked to discriminate between …

Research on the perception of dialect variation has expanded dramatically since the early
years of the twenty‐first century. Early work on perceptual classification of regional dialects …

A speaker's regional dialect is a rich source of information about that person. Two studies
examined five-to six-year-old children's perception of regional dialect: Can they perceive …