Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in
which participants listen to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify …

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12pt]?> In psychophysics and psychometrics, an integral method to the discipline involves …

For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of
speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech …

An early achievement in language is carving a variable acoustic space into categories. The
canonical story is that infants accomplish this by the second year, when only unsupervised …

Word recognition is a gateway to language, linking sound to meaning. Prior work has
characterized its cognitive mechanisms as a form of competition between similar-sounding …

Listeners generally categorize speech sounds in a gradient manner. However, recent work,
using a visual analogue scaling (VAS) task, suggests that some listeners show more …

Classic psycholinguistics seeks universal language mechanisms for all people,
emphasizing the “modal” listener: hearing, neurotypical, monolingual, and young adults …

Auditory categorization requires listeners to integrate acoustic information from multiple
dimensions. Attentional theories suggest that acoustic dimensions that are informative attract …

Adults differ considerably in their perception of both native and nonnative phonemes. For
instance, when presented with continua of native phonemes on two-alternative forced …