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

There is a substantial body of literature showing that men and women speak differently and
that these differences are endemic to the speech signal. However, the psycholinguistic …

Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and
language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly …

Forty-one Detroit-area residents were given perceptual tests in which they were asked to
choose from a set of resynthesized vowels the tokens that they felt best matched the vowels …

This work examines the effect of gender stereotypes on the perception of language by
drawing together findings from the fields of speech perception, gender studies, and social …

The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A
leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English …

Speech produced by different people varies acoustically because of individual differences in
vocal tract physiology. This acoustic variation in the “same” words of language presents a …

The experiments reported here used auditory–visual mismatches to compare three
approaches to speaker normalization in speech perception: radical invariance, vocal tract …

Children's Speech Sound Disorders Concise, easy-to-understand overview of current
practice in articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental dysarthria …

Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech
processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations …