Beat gestures—spontaneously produced biphasic movements of the hand—are among the
most frequently encountered co-speech gestures in human communication. They are closely …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Issues of intelligibility may arise amongst English learners when acquiring new words and
phrases in North American academic settings, perhaps in part due to limited linguistic data …

This study investigates whether listeners' use of prosodic cues to lexical contrasts can
transfer from one phonological phenomenon in the native (first) language (L1) to another in …

Speech and music are highly redundant communication systems, with multiple acoustic
cues signaling the existence of perceptual categories. This redundancy makes these …

This study investigates whether second language learners' processing of stress can be
explained by the degree to which suprasegmental cues contribute to lexical identity in the …

Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the
potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception …

Perception involves integration of multiple dimensions that often serve overlapping,
redundant functions, for example, pitch, duration, and amplitude in speech. Individuals tend …

To study the role of perceptual cues on categorization and decision making, participants are
typically tested in (perception) experiments with a fixed set of randomized or pseudo …

Can non-natives outperform natives on speech discrimination? Surprisingly, Cantonese
listeners discriminated English stress more accurately than did English listeners. To …