Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

An historical discussion is provided of the intellectual trends that caused nineteenth century
interdisciplinary studies of physics and psychobiology by leading scientists such as …

This study demonstrates that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of
speech sounds. Dutch listeners first made lexical decisions on Dutch words and nonwords …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

Speech comprehension is resistant to acoustic distortion in the input, reflecting listeners'
ability to adjust perceptual processes to match the speech input. For noise-vocoded …

This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do
listeners extract the most fundamental linguistic elements—consonants and vowels, or the …

A continuing controversy concerns whether speech perception can be best explained by
single-factor psychoacoustic models, single-factor specialized linguistic models, or dual …

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully
updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be …

This paper focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of speech perception: the rapid,
and highly automatic processes by which complex time-varying speech signals are …

Ever since the beginning of language—and perhaps even earlier—human beings have
classified things and events into categories. Categorization occurs when we focus on …