Purpose While most of the children who are identified as late talkers at age 2 years catch up with their peers before school age, some continue to have language difficulties and will later be having developmental disorder. Our understanding which do not is limited. The aim current study was find out if inhibition associated talker outcomes age. Method We recruited 73 school-aged (ages 7–10 year...

One way talkers can increase intelligibility is by producing clear speech. Though clear speech, as opposed to conversational speech (ConvS), generally increases intelligibility (known as the clear speech intelligibility benefit), not all talkers exhibit the same degree of benefit. Ferguson showed that while intelligibility increased across talkers for clear speech, when looking at individual ta...

Talkers with normal hearing hyperarticulate vowels in lexically hard words (i.e., a low word frequency and high neighborhood density) relative to easy words. This difference articulation has been attributed normal-hearing talkers making listener-oriented articulatory adjustments facilitate intelligibility of their own speech. The extent which adult cochlear implant users exhibit these tendencie...

The aim of this study was the development and assessment of a novel method for recording speech produced under varying degrees of articulatory precision in the laboratory. Three conditions were designed to elicit reduced, citation, and careful speaking styles. In the first condition, talkers read sentences while simultaneously carrying out a distractor task. In the second condition, talkers sim...

Foreign-accented speech can be difficult to understand but listeners can adapt to novel talkers and accents with appropriate experience. Previous studies have demonstrated talker-independent but accent-dependent learning after training on multiple talkers from a single language background. Here, listeners instead were exposed to talkers from five language backgrounds during training. After trai...

Listeners are skilled at detecting native talkers of a language, but can they identify specific non-native language backgrounds? Open-set identification was used to explore this question. Eighty monolingual American English-speaking listeners labeled the language backgrounds of 30 talkers with 5 different native languages (L1s) on the basis of syllableand word-length samples of English. As expe...

The existence of the Language Familiarity Effect (LFE), where talkers a familiar language are easier to identify than an unfamiliar language, is well-documented and uncontroversial. However, closely related phenomenon known as Other Accent (OAE), accented more difficult recognize, less well understood. There several possible explanations for why OAE exists, but date, little data exist adjudicat...