Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is
mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a …

The listener can be thought of as a device for conversion of acoustic input into meaning. The
purpose of this chapter is to provide an outline, necessarily superficial but we hope not …

Three experiments tested the hypothesis that V-to-V coarticulatory organization differs in
Shona and English, and that Shona-and English-speaking listeners' sensitivity to V-to-V …

Spoken word recognition shows gradient sensitivity to within-category voice onset time
(VOT), as predicted by several current models of spoken word recognition, including TRACE …

Participants took part in two speech tests. In both tests, a model speaker produced vowel–
consonant–vowels (VCVs) in which the initial vowel varied unpredictably in duration. In the …

The last 50 years have witnessed a rapid growth in the understanding of the articulation and
the acoustics of vowels. Contemporary theories of speech perception have concentrated on …

Computational and human perception are often considered separate approaches for
studying sound changes over time; few works have touched on the intersection of both. To …

Two visual-world experiments examined listeners' use of pre word-onset anticipatory
coarticulation in spoken-word recognition. Experiment 1 established the shortest lag with …

The perception of coarticulated speech as it unfolds over time was investigated by
monitoring eye movements of participants as they listened to words with oral vowels or with …

For listeners to recognize words, they must map temporally distributed phonetic feature cues
onto higher order phonological representations. Three experiments are reported that were …