Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Recent findings in neuroscience have shown differential patterns in brain activity in
response to similar stimuli and activities across cultural and social differences. This calls for …

We present the results from an experiment that tests the perception of English consonantal
sequences by Korean speakers and we confirm that perceptual epenthesis in a second …

Very diverse cultural practices develop within sufficiently large polities, in response to, and
contributing to, a matrix of social relationships. Museums play a formative role in defining …

One of the first steps infants take in learning their native language is to discover its set of
speech-sound categories. This early development is shown when infants begin to lose the …

This paper presents an overview of phonological relationships that are “intermediate”
between contrast and allophony. As has been observed for many years, such intermediate …

The brain uses context and prior knowledge to repair degraded sensory inputs and improve
perception. For example, listeners hear speech continuing uninterrupted through brief …

This dissertation proposes a model of phonological relationships, the Probabilistic
Phonological Relationship Model (PPRM), that quantifies how predictably distributed two …

Phonemes play a central role in traditional theories as units of speech perception and
access codes to lexical representations. Phonemes have two essential properties: they are …

We revisit the analysis by synthesis (A× S) approach to speech recognition. In the late 1950s
and 1960s, Stevens and Halle proposed a model of spoken word recognition in which …