Recent research demonstrates that the diagnosticity of an acoustic dimension for speech categorization is relative to its relationship to the evolving distribution of dimensional regularity across time, and not simply to its fixed value along the dimension. Two studies examine the nature of this dimension-based statistical learning in online word recognition, testing generalization of learning ...

This study examined the perception of linguistic prosody from augmented point-light displays that were derived from motion tracking six talkers producing different prosodic contrasts. In Experiment 1, we determined perceivers’ ability to use these abstract visual displays to match prosody across modalities (audio to video), when the non-matching visual display was segmentally identical and diff...

Talkers change the way they speak in noisy conditions. For energetic maskers, speech production changes are relatively well-understood, but less is known about how informational maskers such as competing speech affect speech production. The current study examines the effect of energetic and informational maskers on speech production by talkers speaking alone or in pairs. Talkers produced speech...

Traditional conceptions of spoken language assume that speech recognition and talker identification are computed separately. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies imply some separation between the two faculties, but recent perceptual studies suggest better talker recognition in familiar languages than unfamiliar languages. A familiar-language benefit in talker recognition potentially impl...

Traditional methods of research on perceptual dialectology have been limited to tasks that ask participants to draw and label dialect regions on maps or to make attitude judgments about samples of certain linguistic varieties. Only a small handful of perceptual experiments have directly looked at how listeners identify and categorize where talkers are from based on actual speech samples. Our fi...

L1 French participants learned novel L2 English words over two days of learning sessions, with half the presented their orthographic forms (Audio-Ortho) and without (Audio only). One group heard pronounced by a single talker, while another them multiple talkers. On third day, they completed variety tasks to evaluate learning. Our results show robust influence orthography, faster response times ...

A fundamental problem in speech perception is how (or whether) listeners accommodate variability the way talkers produce speech. One view of cope with this that talker differences are normalized – a mapping between talker-specific characteristics and phonetic categories computed such recognized context talker’s vocal characteristics. Consistent view, process more slowly when changes randomly th...

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