Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

During speech perception, a central task of the auditory cortex is to analyze complex
acoustic patterns to allow detection of the words that encode a linguistic message [1]. It is …

Humans are capable of generating extraordinarily diverse articulatory movement
combinations to produce meaningful speech. This ability to orchestrate specific phonetic …

The current study has empirical, methodological, and theoretical components. It draws
heavily on two recent papers: Bowers et al.(2016)(JML, 87, 71–83) used results from …

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language (s) they hear,
processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example …

Creating invariant representations from an everchanging speech signal is a major challenge
for the human brain. Such an ability is particularly crucial for preverbal infants who must …

Many languages mark vowel-initial words with a glottal stop. We show that this occurs in
Maltese, even though the glottal stop also occurs as a phoneme in Maltese. As a …

The beginnings of words are, in some informal sense, special. This intuition is widely
shared, for example, when playing word games. Less apparent is whether the intuition is …

Since the publication of Speaking in 1989, with its extraordinary goal of modelling the entire
process of human speech generation from message conceptualisation to articulation …

The approach proposed in this study includes methods specifically dedicated to the
detection of allophonic variation in English. This study aims to find an efficient method for …