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

We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

A Bayesian model of continuous speech recognition is presented. It is based on Shortlist (D.
Norris, 1994; D. Norris, JM McQueen, A. Cutler, & S. Butterfield, 1997) and shares many of …

Time course estimates from eye tracking during spoken language processing (the “visual
world paradigm”, or VWP) have enabled progress on debates regarding fine-grained details …

Categorical perception (CP) is the phenomenon by which the categories possessed by an
observer influences the observers' perception. Experimentally, CP is revealed when an …

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 …

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully
updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be …

Two experiments explored the representational basis for anticipatory eye movements.
Participants heard 'the man will drink…'or 'the man has drunk…'(Experiment 1) or 'the man …

We identify a number of principles with respect to prediction that, we argue, underpin adult
language comprehension:(a) comprehension consists in realizing a mapping between the …