Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

We present a framework of second and additional language (L2/Ln) acquisition motivated by
recent work on socio‐indexical knowledge in first language (L1) processing. The distribution …

Abstract Language comprehension requires successfully navigating linguistic variability.
One hypothesis for how listeners manage variability is that they rapidly update their …

Linguistic meaning has long been recognized to be highly context-dependent. Quantifiers
like many and some provide a particularly clear example of context-dependence. For …

Prosody is a central part of human speech, with prosodic modulations of the signal
expressing important communicative functions. Yet, the exact mechanisms of how listeners …

Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly
integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's …

When a sentence is produced with contrastive prosodic prominence, the word that carries
the prominence becomes more salient, and alternatives to that word are usually implied. In …

Upon hearing a scalar adjective in a definite referring expression such as “the big…,”
listeners typically make anticipatory eye movements to an item in a contrast set, such as a …

When a listener hears many good examples of a/b/in a row, they are less likely to classify
other sounds on, eg, a/b/-to-/d/continuum as/b/. This phenomenon is known as selective …

One of the challenges in speech perception is that listeners must deal with considerable
segmental and suprasegmental variability in the acoustic signal due to differences between …