This paper focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of speech perception: the rapid,
and highly automatic processes by which complex time-varying speech signals are …

Current accounts of spoken language assume the existence of a lexicon where wordforms
are stored and interact during spoken language perception, understanding and production …

This study demonstrates that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of
speech sounds. Dutch listeners first made lexical decisions on Dutch words and nonwords …

Previous work has shown a back-propagation network with recurrent connections can
successfully model many aspects of human spoken word recognition (Norris, 1988, 1990 …

Empirically-observed word frequency effects in regular sound change present a puzzle: how
can high-frequency words change faster than low-frequency words in some cases, slower in …

Ambiguous stops between/t/and/k/tend to be heard as/k/after/s/-final words and as/t/after/∫/-
final words. Elman and McClelland (1988, Journal of Memory and Language, 27,143–165) …

The effect of cognitive load (CL) on speech recognition has received little attention despite
the prevalence of CL in everyday life, eg, dual-tasking. To assess the effect of CL on the …

Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native consonant contrasts
equally well, but as they learn the phonological systems of their native language, this ability …

There is growing evidence that phonetic categories have a rich internal structure, with
category members varying systematically in category goodness. Our recent findings on this …

The perception of consonant clusters that are phonotactically illegal word initially in English
(eg,/tl/,/sr/) was investigated to determine whether listeners' phonological knowledge of the …