Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Introduction The process of normalising vowel formant data to permit accurate cross-speaker
comparisons of vowel spa Page 1 York Papers in Linguistics Series 2 ISSN 1758-0315 Issue …

Aims: This study investigates the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel
contrasts by 54 early Spanish-Galician bilinguals in the cities of Vigo and Santiago (Galicia …

Research on age-related changes in speech has primarily focused on comparing “young”
vs.“elderly” adults. Yet, listeners are able to guess talker age more accurately than a binary …

Results from a large-scale comparative study of vowel formant normalization methods are
presented. Effectiveness of methods was evaluated by their ability to improve the …

This study investigated vowel space area (VSA) development in childhood and adolescence
and its impact on the ability to hyperarticulate vowels. In experiment 1, 96 participants aged …

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigates the perception
and production of the Catalan mid-vowel contrasts by 60 early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals …

Regional variation in American English speech is often described in terms of shifts,
indicating which vowel sounds are converging or diverging. In the US South, the Southern …

Recent work demonstrates that listeners utilize talker-specific information in the speech
signal to inform real-time language processing. However, there are multiple representational …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …