Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody

X Xie, A Buxó-Lugo, C Kurumada - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …

Using rational models to interpret the results of experiments on accent adaptation

M Tan, X Xie, TF Jaeger - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Exposure to unfamiliar non-native speech tends to improve comprehension. One hypothesis
holds that listeners adapt to non-native-accented speech through distributional learning—by …

The many timescales of context in language processing

R Ryskin, X Fang - Psychology of learning and motivation, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Language input is often noisy and ambiguous. Yet, humans are able to successfully
communicate their thoughts to one another by leveraging contextual information to make …

Listeners' convergence towards an artificial agent in a joint phoneme categorization task

N Nguyen, L Lancia, LM Huttner… - Glossa …, 2024 - cnrs.hal.science
This study focuses on inter-individual convergence effects in the perception and
categorization of speech sounds. We ask to what extent two listeners can come to establish …

Positional biases in predictive processing of intonation

TB Roettger, M Franke, J Cole - Language, Cognition and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Real-time speech comprehension is challenging because communicatively relevant
information is distributed throughout the entire utterance. In five mouse tracking experiments …

[PDF][PDF] Alternative theories to (and evidence for) Gibson et al.(2013)'s Noisy-Channel Inference

X Fang - 2023 - escholarship.org
In real life, language comprehension can be noisy, and sometimes the producer does not
intend what they says. Under this consideration, Gibson et al.(2013) proposed a noisy …