Phonetic convergence is defined as an increase in the similarity of acoustic-phonetic form
between talkers. Previous research has demonstrated phonetic convergence both when a …

This study used a multi-talker database containing intelligibility scores for 2000 sentences
(20 talkers, 100 sentences), to identify talker-related correlates of speech intelligibility. We …

The effects of perceptual learning of talker identity on the recognition of spoken words and
sentences were investigated in three experiments. In each experiment, listeners were …

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the link
between infant speech perception and later language acquisition. This research has yielded …

Speech is a complex auditory signal that contains multiple layers of linguistic and non‐
linguistic structure. Perceivers are exquisitely sensitive to this layered structure and extract …

Previous research by Dupoux et al.[J. Memory Lang. 36, 406–421 (1997)] has shown that
French participants, as opposed to Spanish participants, have difficulties in distinguishing …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

This study examined how perceptual sensitivity contributes to gender differences in vocal
accommodation. Male and female shadowers repeated isolated words presented over …

This study consolidates findings on phonetic convergence in a large-scale examination of
the impacts of talker sex, word frequency, and model talkers on multiple measures of …

The influence of a talker's face (eg, articulatory gestures) and voice, vocalic context, and
word position were investigated in the training of Japanese and Korean English as a second …