Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Listeners must accomplish two complementary perceptual feats in extracting a message
from speech. They must discriminate linguistically-relevant acoustic variability and …

This article is a critical research synthesis of 32 studies that used the High Variability
Phonetic Training (HVPT) technique to teach learners to better perceive and produce L2 …

Touch receptors in the skin can relay various forms of abstract information, such as words
(Braille), haptic feedback (cell phones, game controllers, feedback for prosthetic control) …

One view of speech perception is that acoustic signals are transformed into representations
for pattern matching to determine linguistic structure. This process can be taken as a …

Despite burgeoning evidence that listeners are highly sensitive to statistical distributions of
speech cues, the mechanism underlying learning may not be purely statistical tracking …

Adults struggle to learn non-native speech contrasts even after years of exposure. While
laboratory-based training approaches yield learning, the optimal training conditions for …

Early changes in infants' ability to perceive native and nonnative speech sound contrasts are
typically attributed to their developing knowledge of phonetic categories. We critically …

Abstract Second-language (L2) learners can benefit from exposure to phonetically variable
speech during computer-based training. Moreover, this training can be effective even for L2 …

A successful language learner must be able to perceive and produce novel sounds in their
second language. However, the relationship between learning in perception and production …