Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in
which participants listen to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify …

The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a
particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review …

Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions and their boundaries are
generally fuzzy and ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential weighting to …

Individual variation is ubiquitous and empirically observable in most phonological
behaviors, yet relatively few studies aim to capture the heterogeneity of language …

Listeners generally categorize speech sounds in a gradient manner. However, recent work,
using a visual analogue scaling (VAS) task, suggests that some listeners show more …

Recent studies have documented substantial variability among typical listeners in how
gradiently they categorize speech sounds, and this variability in categorization gradience …

Categorisation is a fundamental cognitive ability to group different objects as the same. This
ability is particularly indispensable for human speech perception, yet individual differences …

Are there individual tendencies in convergence, such that some speakers consistently
converge more than others? Similarly, are there natural “leaders,” speakers with whom …

Some listeners exhibit higher sensitivity to subphonemic acoustic differences (ie, higher
speech gradiency). Here, we asked whether higher gradiency in a listener's first language …

Phonologization is o ten understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change
where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is …