We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Purpose The ability to hear and understand speech in complex acoustic environments
follows a prolonged time course of development. The purpose of this article is to provide a …

Purpose To evaluate child–adult differences for consonant identification in a noise or a 2-
talker masker. Error patterns were compared across age and masker type to test the …

Introduction During speech comprehension, multiple sources of information are available to
listeners, which are combined to guide the recognition process. Models of speech …

This paper argues that processes traditionally classified as lenition fall into at least two
subsets, with distinct phonetic reflexes, formal properties and characteristic contexts. One …

The beginnings of words are, in some informal sense, special. This intuition is widely
shared, for example, when playing word games. Less apparent is whether the intuition is …

The number of phonological neighbours to a word (PND) can affect its lexical planning and
pronunciation. Similar parallel effects on planning and articulation have been observed for …

Objectives: Repeated testing of speech perception is unavoidable in evaluating the benefits
of hearing aids and auditory rehabilitation, but procedural and content learning due to …

The most common complaint of older hearing impaired (OHI) listeners is difficulty
understanding speech in the presence of noise. However, tests of consonant-identification …

Hearing aids (HAs) only partially restore the ability of older hearing impaired (OHI) listeners
to understand speech in noise, due in large part to persistent deficits in consonant …