Communication in the real world is inherently multimodal. When having a conversation,
typically sighted and hearing people use both auditory and visual cues to understand one …

Speech is a multisensory signal that can be extracted from the voice and the lips. Previous
studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual …

In this article, the focus is on the pivotal role of speakers in shaping language dynamics and
dialectal stability, particularly within the context of dialectal variation. It is evident that …

The use of visual speech is thought to be especially important in situations where acoustics
are unclear and in individuals with hearing impairment. To investigate this in a neural …

Abstract Language is a unique skill used by humans to communicate thoughts and feelings.
For most individuals, language is understood through different sensory modalities—for …

Movements of the body beyond those involved in articulation are often exquisitely timed with
speech. These embodied cues often inform semantic and pragmatic levels of social …

Die Sprecher1 einer Sprache wurden von der Linguistik lange Zeit nicht berücksichtigt und
ihre Art, Sprache zu verwenden, sogar als fehlerhaft oder hinderlich angesehen (z. B. in …

As we listen to natural connected speech, we effortlessly transform speech acoustics into
linguistic units. As that transformation begins, so does a lexical inference process that …