Identifying speech requires that listeners make rapid use of fine-grained acoustic cues—a
process that is facilitated by being able to see the talker's face. Face masks present a …

For nearly 25 years, researchers have recognized the rich and numerous facets of native
perception of non‐native speech, driving a large, and growing, body of work that has shed …

Intelligibility measures, which assess the number of words or phonemes a listener correctly
transcribes or repeats, are commonly used metrics for speech perception research. While …

Upon hearing someone's speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker's
age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an …

Though necessary, protective mask wearing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
presents communication challenges. The present study examines how signal degradation …

The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers
must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those …

Pupillometry has a rich history in the study of perception and cognition. One perennial
challenge is that the magnitude of the task‐evoked pupil response diminishes over the …

In most contemporary activation-competition frameworks for spoken word recognition,
candidate words compete against phonological “neighbors” with similar acoustic properties …

Objectives: The listening demand incurred by speech perception fluctuates in normal
conversation. At the acoustic-phonetic level, natural variation in pronunciation acts as …

This controlled experimental study investigated the interaction of variables associated with
rating the pronunciation component of high-stakes English-language-speaking tests such as …