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

Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly
variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes …

A usage-based view takes grammar to be the cognitive organization of one's experience
with language. Aspects of that experience, for instance, the frequency of use of certain …

Volumes in this series will be functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics
in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language …

Spontaneous phonetic imitation is the process by which a talker comes to be more similar-
sounding to a model talker as the result of exposure. The current experiment investigates …

Psycholinguistics is an authoritative, wide-ranging and up-to-date A to Z guide to this
important field. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme, shorten
equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly …

Despite the pervasiveness of lenition in the sound systems of natural language, this class of
patterns has eluded adequate characterization in previous theories of phonology …

Traditionally, investigations into speech and pronounciation have relied on the unaided
skills of the phonetician in recognising and reproducing speech sounds. But many …