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

This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

Based on evidence that listeners may favor certain foreign accents over others (Gass &
Varonis, 1984; Major, Fitzmaurice, Bunta, & Balasubramanian, 2002; Tauroza & Luk, 1997) …

Foreign-accented speech can be difficult to understand but listeners can adapt to novel
talkers and accents with appropriate experience. Previous studies have demonstrated talker …

Understanding spoken language requires mapping acoustic input onto stored phonological
and lexical representations. Speech tokens, however, are notoriously variable: they fluctuate …

This study explores phonetic convergence during conversations between pairs of talkers
with varying language distance. Specifically, we examined conversations within two native …

One view of speech perception is that acoustic signals are transformed into representations
for pattern matching to determine linguistic structure. This process can be taken as a …

The current study investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of
comprehensibility and accentedness in second language (L2) speech. The participants …

Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Listeners use lexical knowledge to retune phoneme categories. When hearing an
ambiguous sound between/s/and/f/in lexically unambiguous contexts such as gira [s/f] …