This article reviews research on when acoustic‐phonetic variability facilitates, inhibits, or
does not impact perceptual development for spoken language, to illuminate mechanisms by …

Although unfamiliar accents can pose word identification challenges for children and adults,
few studies have directly compared perception of multiple nonnative and regional accents or …

Purpose People who stutter are susceptible to discrimination, stemming from negative
stereotypes and social misattributions. There has been a recent push to evaluate the …

Purpose Persons who stutter (PWS) may be susceptible to discrimination because of
negative judgments made by listeners. The current study sought to determine how the …

Purpose: The primary aim was to assess whether children have difficulty distinguishing
similar-sounding novel words. The secondary aim was to assess what task characteristics …

This study investigated the development of character transposition effects during Chinese
compound word recognition via computer mouse movements instead of the conventional …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether children's identification of
misarticulated words as real objects was influenced by an inherent bias toward selecting …

Purpose: Children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) often struggle with forming early
representations for phonemes and words, which could impact their speech production as …

Young children often make pragmatic assumptions when learning new words. For example,
they assume that a speaker who uses different words intends to refer to different things–the …

Purpose This study examined toddlers' processing of mispronunciations based on their
frequency of occurrence in child speech and the speaker who produced them. Method One …