This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information
about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes …

Speech is produced over time, and this makes sensitivity to timing between speech events
crucial for understanding language. Two experiments investigated whether perception of …

Background: Frequency of occurrence is a strong predictor of lexical processing across
modalities and experimental paradigms. However, frequency is part of a large set of …

Recent research on the acoustic realization of affixes has revealed differences between
phonologically homophonous affixes, eg the different kinds of final [s] and [z] in English …

Acoustic reduction refers to the frequent phenomenon in conversational speech that words
are produced with fewer or lenited segments compared to their citation forms. The few …

Abstract Words are often pronounced very differently in formal speech than in everyday
conversations. In conversational speech, they may contain weaker segments, fewer sounds …

Current theories of auditory comprehension assume that the segmentation of speech into
word forms is an essential prerequisite to understanding. We present a computational model …