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 …

Reviews recent experimental findings that show that the perception of phonetic distinctions
relies on the integration of multiple acoustic cues and is sensitive to the surrounding context …

Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading
textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbooks …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

At the forefront of debates on language are new data demonstrating infants' early acquisition
of information about their native language. The data show that infants perceptually “map” …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

This paper argues for a more structured view of the relation between the phonological
feature [voice] and its specific phonetic implementations. Under the theory of universal …

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 …