Objective The scientific study of the perception of spoken language has been an exciting,
prolific, and productive area of research for more than 50 yr. We have learned much about …

FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, virtually all attempts to account for the neural bases and the
evolution of human language have focused on the neocortex. And in the past 40 years …

The influence of phonological similarity neighborhoods on the speed and accuracy of
speech production was investigated with speech-error elicitation and picture-naming tasks …

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have provided a detailed picture of the early
time‐course of speech perception. In this review, we highlight this work, placing it within the …

Listeners appear to use phonotactic constraints in the segmentation of continuous speech.
Because some strings of phonemes (such as [lv] and [mr] in Dutch) never occur within the …

In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on
evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and …

While natural speech does not possess the same degree of temporal regularity found in
music, there is recent evidence to suggest that temporal regularity enhances speech …

Phonologically prominent or" strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist
positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However …

The present study investigated phonological and orthographic neighborhood effects in
auditory word recognition in French. In an auditory lexical decision task, phonological …

Ambiguous stops between/t/and/k/tend to be heard as/k/after/s/-final words and as/t/after/∫/-
final words. Elman and McClelland (1988, Journal of Memory and Language, 27,143–165) …