When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to
utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the …

The perceptual brain is designed around multisensory input. Areas once thought dedicated
to a single sense are now known to work with multiple senses. It has been argued that the …

Two talkers' productions of the same phoneme may be quite different acoustically, whereas
their productions of different speech sounds may be virtually identical. Despite this lack of …

Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often have difficulty recognizing emotion in others.
This is likely due to difficulties in interpreting non-verbal cues of affect. Although deficits in …

This investigation examined whether speakers produce reliable prosodic correlates to
meaning across semantic domains and whether listeners use these cues to derive word …

An overview of forensic phonetics is presented, focusing on speaker identification as its core
task. Speaker profiling/speaker classification is applied when the offender has been …

The aim of this paper is to provide a sociophonetic perspective on debate relating to the role
of usage-based approaches in accounting for language variation. The bulk of the paper …

Background: Previous studies investigating speech recognition in adverse listening
conditions have found extensive variability among individual listeners. However, little is …

This chapter starts by mentioning the drawbacks of the approach conventionally adopted in
L2 listening instruction–in particular, its focus on the products of listening rather than the …

Multisensory input can improve perception of ambiguous unisensory information. For
example, speech heard in noise can be more accurately identified when listeners see a …