In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

Two experiments examined the effects of processing fluency—that is, the ease with which
speech is processed—on language attitudes toward native-and foreign-accented speech …

This study aimed to determine the relative processing cost associated with comprehension
of an unfamiliar native accent under adverse listening conditions. Two sentence verification …

Understanding spoken language requires mapping acoustic input onto stored phonological
and lexical representations. Speech tokens, however, are notoriously variable: they fluctuate …

This article considers two instances of rapidly accelerating linguistic change in Glaswegian
vernacular, TH-FRONTING and L-VOCALIZATION, both typically associated with the …

Background: There is a pressing need for new clinically feasible speech recognition tests
that are theoretically motivated, sensitive to individual differences, and access the core …

PurPose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language
listening comprehension, with a focus on characteristics of the listener, passage, and testing …

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 …

We investigated comprehension of and adaptation to speech in an unfamiliar accent in older
adults. Participants performed a speeded sentence verification task for accented sentences …

Cochlear implants (CIs) are prosthetic devices that restore hearing in deaf individuals via
electric stimulation of the auditory nerve through an electrode array inserted in the cochlea …