In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

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 …

This study explored the perceptual benefits of brief exposure to non-native speech. Native
English listeners were exposed to English sentences produced by non-native speakers …

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 …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

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 …

In order to gain insight into the interplay between the talker-, listener-, and item-related
factors that influence speech perception, a large multi-talker database of digitally recorded …

Infants' representations of the sound patterns of words were explored by examining the
effects of talker variability on the recognition of words in fluent speech. Infants were …

A method is described to select sentence materials for efficient measurement of the speech
reception threshold (SRT). The first part of the paper addresses the creation of the sentence …

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 …