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 …

Research on the perception of dialect variation has expanded dramatically since the early
years of the twenty‐first century. Early work on perceptual classification of regional dialects …

Frequency-dependent gain adjustments are routine in hearing-aid fittings, whether in
matching to real-ear targets or fine-tuning to patient feedback. Patient feedback may be …

How fast can listeners adapt to unfamiliar foreign accents? Clarke and Garrett [J. Acoust.
Soc. Am. 116, 3647–3658 (2004)](CG04) reported that native-English listeners adapted to …

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 …

Nonnative-accented speakers face prevalent discrimination. The assumption that people
freely express negative sentiments toward nonnative speakers has also guided common …

This chapter discusses curriculum concepts and philosophies of education associated with
three major perspectives: first, traditional forms of education and second, progressive …

Speech perception depends on the ability to generalize previously experienced input
effectively across talkers. How such cross-talker generalization is achieved has remained an …

Purpose The intelligibility of an accent strongly depends on the specific talker–listener
pairing. To explore the causes of this phenomenon, we investigated the relationship …

This exploratory study examined the simultaneous interactions and relative contributions of
bottom-up social information (regional dialect, speaking style), top-down contextual …