Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

Grammatical encoding is one of the earliest stages in linguistic encoding. One broadly
accepted view holds that grammatical encoding is primarily or exclusively affected by …

When encountering speakers whose accents differ from the listener's own, listeners initially
show a processing cost, but that cost can be attenuated after short term exposure. The extent …

This paper aims at determining the best way to exploit the phonological properties of the
Arabic language in order to improve the performance of the speech recognition system. One …

This paper investigates the extent to which listeners are cued into the systematicity of
variability in speech, particularly the grammatical conditioning constraints of the English …

The perception of social meanings and styles is dependent upon the contributions of a
constellation of multiple covarying sociolinguistic variants. This suggests that listeners …

When children find the production of a speech sound difficult, they tend to substitute it with
another easier one, a phenomenon described as Substitution Phonological Pattern (SPP) …

In conversational speech, it is very common for words' segments to be reduced or deleted.
However, previous research has consistently shown that during spoken word recognition …

Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether bilinguals categorically displayed
shorter or longer schwa durations between fixed word pairs where one word contains a …

Previous studies have shown that multiple talkers help learners make more robust word
representations when the learner is not very experienced with the language (Richtsmeier et …