Listeners' use of social information during speech perception was investigated by measuring
transcription accuracy of Chinese-accented speech in noise while listeners were presented …

Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that
cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or “tags,” can invade …

For obvious reasons forensic speech science is precisely about language and identities,
albeit in a relatively restricted domain. Its goal is often to associate a given speech sample …

Two cross-modal priming studies investigated the recognition of English words spoken with
a foreign accent. Auditory English primes were either typical of a Dutch accent or typical of a …

Figure 1: Process model of native reactions to non-native speech. 8 Figure 2: The proportion
of immigrants to the entire Swedish population. 21 Figure 3: Opinions about whether the …

Historically, there has been less research carried out on earwitness than eyewitness
testimony. However, in some cases, earwitness evidence might play an important role in …

Perception is the use of knowledge to make sense of–to impose structure upon–the signals
relayed to the brain from our peripheral sense organs. For speech perception, this has been …

An argument from first principles is presented in favour of native-speaker involvement in
Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO). Speech is both language and …

In Modern Hebrew, only three segmental markers are typically acknowledged as ethnically
conditioned, and usage of these markers has significantly decreased in second and third …

Voice comparison in forensic phonetic casework requires the assessment of the similarity of
the target voices. This task may be impeded by the speakers' attempt to disguise their voice …