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 …

Previous research indicates that talkers differ in phonetically relevant properties of speech,
including voice-onset-time (VOT) in word-initial stop consonants; some talkers have …

This study investigated the effect of hyperarticulated, intelligibility-enhancing clear speech
on temporal characteristics as reflected in number, durations, and variability of consonant …

A recent study (Kim & Cho, 2013, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America) reported
that the perception of a prosodic boundary leads to a shift in a stop-identification function in …

The lack of invariance problem in speech perception refers to a fundamental problem of how
listeners deal with differences of speech sounds produced by various speakers. The current …

] was tested with the Japanese stop quantity distinction in disyllables spoken at various
rates. The questions were whether the perceptual boundary between the two phonemic …

Some languages, such as many varieties of English, use short-lag and long-lag VOT to
distinguish word-and syllable-initial voiced vs. voiceless stop phonemes. According to a …

The theory of relational acoustic invariance claims that there are stable acoustic properties
in speech signals that correspond to a phonological feature, and that the perception system …

Recent research using the phenomenon of illusory vowels has raised our awareness of the
extent to which speech perception is modulated by the listener's native-language …

The present study investigates the phonetic and phonological aspects of the voicing contrast
in stops in Najdi Arabic, a dialect that has been found to contrast prevoiced and aspirated …