Abstract There is a consensus in psycholinguistic research that listening to unfamiliar speech constitutes challenging situation. In this commentary, we explore the problems with construct of non-native and ask whether using useful, specifically shift communicative burden from language learner perceiver, who often occupies position power. We examine what factors affect perception talkers. frame...

This study examined how talker accentedness affects the recognition of noise-vocoded speech by native English listeners and contextual information interplays with during this process. The included 20 English-speaking, normal-hearing adults aged between 19 23 years old. stimuli were Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) Revised Speech Perception (R-SPIN) sentences produced four Mandarin talkers (two male...

The separation of speech from two simultaneous talkers is a problem of some practical and theoretical importance. We describe a prototype separation system based on harmonic selection using comb filters. Hermes’ subharmonic spectrum method is used to produce a number of (weighted) pitch estimates, with pitch tracks for the two talkers then found by constrained dynamic programming. The system ha...

This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1;6 to 2;11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). V...

Five vowels /i, , æ, (or ), u/ in isolated /CVC/ words produced by 7 American English (AmE) and 6 Australian English (AusE) talkers were examined with a view to documenting acoustic-phonetic similarities and differences between the two accent types. The effect of Accent was significant on all vowels for at least one of the first two formants. The AusE vowel space was much more compressed relati...

Following research that found imitation in single-word shadowing, this study examines the degree to which interacting talkers increase similarity in phonetic repertoire during conversational interaction. Between-talker repetitions of the same lexical items produced in a conversational task were examined for phonetic convergence by asking a separate set of listeners to detect similarity in pronu...

Two experiments examined production and perception of English temporal patterns by native and non-native participants. Experiment 1 indicated that native and non-native (L1 = Chinese) talkers differed significantly in their production of one English duration pattern (i.e., vowel lengthening before voiced versus voice-less consonants) but not another (i.e., tense versus lax vowels). Experiment 2...

Forty talkers participated in problem-solving tasks with another talker in conditions differing in communication difficulty for the interlocutor. A linguistic barrier condition (L2 interlocutor) was compared to acoustic barrier conditions (native interlocutors hearing vocoded or noisy speech). Talkers made acoustic-phonetic enhancements in all barrier conditions compared to the no-barrier condi...

In 5 experiments, the authors investigated how listeners learn to recognize unfamiliar talkers and how experience with specific utterances generalizes to novel instances. Listeners were trained over several days to identify 10 talkers from natural, sinewave, or reversed speech sentences. The sinewave signals preserved phonetic and some suprasegmental properties while eliminating natural vocal q...