Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

The extent to which negative bias toward foreign‐accented speakers originates from social
categorization (in‐group/out‐group categorization) and/or from processing fluency (ease in …

This study investigated the impact of the speaker's identity generated by the voice on
sentence processing. We examined the relation between ERP components associated with …

Foreign-accented speech categorizes the speaker as an outgroup individual with a lower
linguistic competence and a different knowledge heritage from a native speaker. Here we …

In the context of mental wellness support, trust and intimacy between a counselor and a
patient are necessary to converge healing processes positively. However, convincing …

We investigated the neural correlates of accented speech processing (ASP) with an fMRI
study that overcame prior limitations in this line of research: we preserved intelligibility by …

Voice-AI assistants offer innovative ways for people to interact with technology, such as
delivering search results through human-sounding voices. Unlike printed text, however …

In a pioneering study, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) observed that unknown statements are
judged less credible when uttered with foreign accent compared to native accent. This …

Objective The purpose of the study was to determine whether listeners were less likely to
believe a statement that is produced in an atypical voice, as compared to a typical voice. It …

Previous studies found mixed results regarding a bias in credibility ratings for trivia
statements made by L2 speakers in comparison to L1 speakers. Perceptual fluency, social …