Spontaneous phonetic imitation is the process by which a talker comes to be more similar-
sounding to a model talker as the result of exposure. The current experiment investigates …

The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information
about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes …

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 …

Twenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region
US Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated …

Communicating with a speaker with a different accent can affect one's own speech. Despite
the strength of evidence for perception-production transfer in speech, the nature of transfer …

Non-local phonological patterns can be difficult to analyze in the context of speech
production models. Some patterns–eg, vowel harmonies, nasal harmonies–can be readily …

This study asks whether first and second language speakers would converge equally across
dialect boundaries. To investigate this we ran a shadowing task in which first (American and …

This study investigates the relationship between speech perception and production using
explicit phonetic imitation. We used manipulated natural vowel (head-had) stimuli varying in …

We tested the hypothesis that rapid shadowers imitate the articulatory gestures that structure
acoustic speech signals—not just acoustic patterns in the signals themselves—overcoming …

Speech contrasts are signaled by multiple acoustic dimensions, but these dimensions are
not equally diagnostic. Moreover, the relative diagnosticity, or weight, of acoustic dimensions …