The phonetic potential of nonhuman primate vocal tracts has been the subject of
considerable contention in recent literature. Here, the work of Philip Lieberman (1934 …

As with biological systems, spoken languages are strikingly robust against perturbations.
This paper shows that languages achieve robustness in a way that is highly similar to many …

Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is
mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a …

Studies of speech motor control are described that support a theoretical framework in which
fundamental control variables for phonemic movements are multi-dimensional regions in …

Mental representations have continuous as well as discrete, combinatorial properties. For
example, while predominantly discrete, phonological representations also vary …

The perception of coarticulated speech as it unfolds over time was investigated by
monitoring eye movements of participants as they listened to words with oral vowels or with …

This paper offers a novel account of a familiar typological observation, namely the tendency
of phonological inventories to consist of segments that are dispersed through the available …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in shaping phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Multiple co-varying cues for a phonological contrast are often introduced by coarticulation,
and sound change occurs when their relative weighting shifts. The central issues for this …

Disabled speech is not compatible with modern generative and acoustic-only models of
speech recognition (ASR). This work considers the use of theoretical and empirical …