All languages instantiate a consonant/vowel contrast. This contrast has processing
consequences at different levels of spoken-language recognition throughout the lifespan. In …

Two experiments used the head-mounted eye-tracking methodology to examine the time
course of lexical activation in the face of a non-phonemic cue, talker variation. We found that …

Previous tests of toddlers' phonological knowledge of familiar words using word recognition
tasks have examined syllable onsets but not word-final consonants (codas). However, there …

Might there be parallels between category learning in animals and word learning in
children? To examine this possibility, we devised a new associative learning technique for …

Recent work demonstrates that listeners utilize talker-specific information in the speech
signal to inform real-time language processing. However, there are multiple representational …

The division of labor hypothesis proposed by Nespor, Peña, and Mehler (2003) postulates
that consonants are more important than vowels in lexical processing (when learning and …

Characteristics of vocabulary lists as well as study and test translation direction may affect
the ease of learning second language (L2) vocabulary. We examined immediate and …

Previous preferential listening studies suggest that 11-month-olds' early word
representations are phonologically detailed, such that minor phonetic variations (ie …

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 …

Consonants have been proposed to carry more of the weight of lexical processing than
vowels. This consonant bias has consistently been found in adults and has been proposed …