Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly
variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes …

Phonological development is sometimes seen as a process of learning sounds, or forming
phonological categories, and then combining sounds to build words, with the evidence …

Although speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions, some are
perceptually weighted more than others and there are residual effects of native‐language …

Toddlers' and preschoolers' knowledge of the phonological forms of words was tested in
Spanish-learning, Catalan-learning, and bilingual children. These populations are of …

Dual-system models of visual category learning posit the existence of an explicit, hypothesis-
testing reflective system, as well as an implicit, procedural-based reflexive system. The …

This study addresses the questions of whether listening to a bimodal distribution of vowels
improves adult learners' categorization of a difficult L2 vowel contrast and whether …

Humans are born as “universal listeners” without a bias toward any particular language.
However, over the first year of life, infants' perception is shaped by learning native speech …

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

Languages differ markedly in the number of colour terms in their lexicons. The Himba, for
example, a remote culture in Namibia, were reported in 2005 to have only a 5-colour term …

Listeners possess a remarkable ability to adapt to acoustic variability in the realization of
speech sound categories (eg, different accents). The current work tests whether non-native …