Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

The uncanny valley hypothesis, proposed already in the 1970s, suggests that almost but not
fully humanlike artificial characters will trigger a profound sense of unease. This hypothesis …

This paper argues that the phonetic interpretation of phonological representations may be
controlled as well as automatic, because contextual variation in the realization of distinctive …

In Chapters 1 and 2, I made the claim that developing an explanatory theory of SLA will
necessarily involve finding a way to link a theory of grammar to theories of perception …

Historic theories of speech perception (Motor Theory and Analysis by Synthesis) invoked
listeners' knowledge of speech production to explain speech perception. Neuroimaging data …

Traditionally, investigations into speech and pronounciation have relied on the unaided
skills of the phonetician in recognising and reproducing speech sounds. But many …

A long recognized problem for linguistic theory has been to explain why certain sounds,
sound oppositions, and sound sequences are statistically preferred over others among …

It is often assumed in work on the phonological underspecification of segments that while
representations may at first be underspecified, they end up fully specified. Various kinds of …

Central Auditory Processing Page 1 Task Force on Central Auditory Processing Consensus
Development 41 Clinical Focus s Grand Rounds American Journal of Audiology • Vol. 5 • …

In English, a number of rules affect the realisation of a nasal consonant or a segment
adjacent to a nasal consonant. These include rules of Anticipatory Nasalisation, eg …