The term statistical learning in infancy research originally referred to sensitivity to transitional
probabilities. Subsequent research has demonstrated that statistical learning contributes to …

Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Abstract Language experience systematically constrains perception of speech contrasts that
deviate phonologically and/or phonetically from those of the listener's native language …

Linguistic experience affects phonetic perception. However, the critical period during which
experience affects perception and the mechanism responsible for these effects are …

Many perceptual categories exhibit internal structure in which category prototypes play an
important role. In the four experiments reported here, the internal structure of phonetic …

Two experiments were carried out to extend Logan et al.'s recent study [JS Logan, SE Lively,
and DB Pisoni, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 874–886 (1991)] on training Japanese listeners to …

Past research suggests that the degree of difficulty adults have with discriminating non-
native segmental contrasts varies considerably across contrasts and languages. According …

Listeners are exquisitely sensitive to fine-grained acoustic detail within phonetic categories
for sounds and words. Here we show that this sensitivity is optimal given the probabilistic …

This study examined the production of English consonants by native speakers of Italian. The
240 adult native Italian speakers of English who participated had begun learning English …

Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is
mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a …