Over the first year of life, infant perception changes radically as the child learns the
phonology of the ambient language from the speech she is exposed to. Since infant …

Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

This article provides an overview of the research concerning the nature of the distinct,
listener‐oriented speaking style called 'clear speech'and its effect on intelligibility for various …

Infant-directed speech has three main roles–it attracts attention, conveys emotional affect,
and conveys language-specific phonological information, and each of these roles are …

For children, learning often occurs in the presence of background noise. As such, there is
growing desire to improve a child's access to a target signal in noise. Given adult musicians' …

The renewed focus of attention on investigating spontaneous speech samples in speech
and language research has increased the need for recordings of speech in interactive …

Previous research has shown that speech recognition differences between native and
proficient non-native listeners emerge under suboptimal conditions. Current evidence has …

Method Seven acoustic metrics were measured for conversational and clear vowels
produced by 12 talkers—6 who previously were found (SH Ferguson, 2004) to produce a …