We present a critical assessment of Piantadosi's (2023) claim that" Modern language
models refute Chomsky's approach to language," focusing on four main points. First, despite …

There is wide variability in the acoustic patterns that are produced for a given linguistic
message, including variability that is conditioned on who is speaking. Listeners solve this …

Recent research showed selectivity of perceptual learning in speech to linguistic variables
and non-linguistic variables. With regard to the latter Keetels et al.(2016) reported that …

Research suggests that listeners simultaneously update talker-specific generative models to
reflect structured phonetic variation. Because past investigations exposed listeners to talkers …

Previous research demonstrates listeners dynamically adjust phonetic categories in line with
lexical context. While listeners show flexibility in adapting speech categories, recalibration …

Previous research on perceptual adaptation in vowels has attested generalization of
retuning across vowelheight counterparts. Our study tested for a labinduced chain shift. In a …

Many studies have demonstrated that listeners can rapidly recalibrate their perceptual
boundaries of specific L1 phoneme categories after exposure to a native speaker producing …