The proliferation of the Internet of Things has increased reliance on voice-controlled devices
to perform everyday tasks. Although these devices rely on accurate speech recognition for …

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the
one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as …

More than 30 years have passed since Mehler et al.(1988) proposed that newborns can
discriminate between languages that belong to different rhythm classes: stress-, syllable-or …

Substantial empirical research has revealed that temporal and spectral phonetic vowel
reduction occurs in “easy” processing contexts relative to “hard” processing contexts …

Regional variation in American English speech is often described in terms of shifts,
indicating which vowel sounds are converging or diverging. In the US South, the Southern …

Phonetic convergence is linguistically and socially selective. The current study examined the
constraints on this selectivity in convergence to Southern American English by non-Southern …

To acquire language and successfully communicate in multicultural and multilingual
societies, children must learn to understand speakers with various accents and dialects. This …

Differences in the way voice onset time (VOT) is used across languages to maintain stop
voicing contrasts have been well-documented, but less research has focused on VOT …

Most cues to speech intelligibility are within a narrow frequency range, with its upper limit not
exceeding 4 kHz. It is still unclear whether speaker-related (indexical) information is …

The chapter is concerned with how the mechanisms of human speech processing can
occasionally give rise to historical sound change. The starting point is the origin of sound …