Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …
G Hickok - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions, psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the …
Since its original publication in 1997, Rosina Lippi-Green's English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization …
In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives …
Spontaneous phonetic imitation is the process by which a talker comes to be more similar- sounding to a model talker as the result of exposure. The current experiment investigates …
J Hay, P Warren, K Drager - Journal of phonetics, 2006 - Elsevier
In New Zealand English there is a merger-in-progress of the near and square diphthongs. This paper investigates the consequences of this merger for speech perception. We report …
Despite abundant evidence of malleability in speech production, previous studies of the effects of late second-language learning on first-language speech production have been …
Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski …