This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

The present article examines lexical processing of foreign-accented speech, specifically as it
relates to gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience. In two experiments, we …

Past research has revealed that native listeners use top-down information to adjust the
mapping from speech sounds to phonetic categories. Such phonetic adjustments help …

We propose the fuzzy lexical representations (FLRs) hypothesis that regards fuzziness as a
core property of nonnative (L2) lexical representations (LRs). Fuzziness refers to imprecise …

A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

Novel words (like tog) that sound like well-known words (dog) are hard for toddlers to learn,
even though children can hear the difference between them (Swingley & Aslin, 2002, 2007) …

Objectives: Work in normal-hearing (NH) adults suggests that spoken language processing
involves coping with ambiguity. Even a clearly spoken word contains brief periods of …

How are languages learned, and to what extent are learning mechanisms similar in infant
native-language (L1) and adult second-language (L2) acquisition? In terms of vocabulary …

A critical indicator of spoken language knowledge is the ability to discern the finest possible
distinctions that exist between words in a language—minimal pairs, for example, the …

A frequently replicated finding is that higher frequency words tend to be shorter and contain
more strongly reduced vowels. However, little is known about potential differences in the …