If listening in adverse conditions is hard, then listening in a foreign language is doubly so:
non-native listeners have to cope with both imperfect signals and imperfect knowledge …

This study examined whether speech-on-speech masking is sensitive to variation in the
degree of similarity between the target and the masker speech. Three experiments …

Previous studies have shown that when speakers of European languages are asked to turn
nonwords into words by altering either a vowel or consonant, they tend to treat vowels as …

Objectives: A hearing aid noise reduction (NR) algorithm reduces the adverse effect of
competing speech on memory for target speech for individuals with hearing impairment with …

Talkers׳ regions of origin and native languages will significantly shape their speech
production patterns. Previous results suggest that listeners are highly sensitive to whether a …

Through experience with speech variability, listeners build categories of indexical speech
characteristics including categories for talker, gender, and dialect. The auditory free …

How and when do children become aware that speakers have different accents? While
adults readily make a variety of subtle social inferences based on speakers' accents …

This study investigated the extent to which listeners are able to discriminate between
bilingual talkers in three language pairs–English–German, English–Finnish and English …

The current study investigated whether bilingualism affects the processing of sub-lexical
representations specifying the sound structure of words. Spanish-English bilinguals …

Psycholinguistic research using the visual world paradigm has shown that the processing of
sentences is constrained by the visual context in which they occur. Recently, there has been …