Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

Speech sound contrasts differ along multiple phonetic dimensions. During speech
perception, listeners must decide which cues are relevant, and determine the relative …

Like its predecessor, the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) focuses on the learning of
L2 vowels and consonants (or “sounds,” for short) across the life-span. To define the context …

Music and language are two fundamental forms of human communication. Many studies
examine the development of music‐and language‐specific knowledge, but few studies …

This study examined individual differences in categorical perception and the use of multiple
acoustic cues in the perception of the stop voicing contrast. Goals were to investigate …

Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

One of the persistent puzzles in understanding human speech perception is how listeners
cope with talker variability. One thing that might help listeners is structure in talker variability …

Listeners show a remarkable ability to quickly adjust to degraded speech input. Here, we
aimed to identify the neural mechanisms of such short-term perceptual adaptation. In a …

Listeners use lexical knowledge to retune phoneme categories. When hearing an
ambiguous sound between/s/and/f/in lexically unambiguous contexts such as gira [s/f] …

Early changes in infants' ability to perceive native and nonnative speech sound contrasts are
typically attributed to their developing knowledge of phonetic categories. We critically …