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 …

The Desired Sensation Level (DSL) Method was revised to support hearing instrument fitting
for infants, young children, and adults who use modern hearing instrument technologies …

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully
updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be …

Infants in the early stages of word learning have difficulty learning lexical neighbors (ie word
pairs that differ by a single phoneme), despite their ability to discriminate the same contrast …

Speakers can adopt a speaking style that allows them to be understood more easily in
difficult communication situations, but few studies have examined the acoustic properties of …

Speech sound contrasts differ along multiple phonetic dimensions. During speech
perception, listeners must decide which cues are relevant, and determine the relative …

During speech perception, listeners make judgments about the phonological category of
sounds by taking advantage of multiple acoustic cues for each phonological contrast …

This study examined individual differences in categorical perception and the use of multiple
acoustic cues in the perception of the stop voicing contrast. Goals were to investigate …

Children who are typically develo** often struggle to hear and understand speech in the
presence of competing background sounds, particularly when the background sounds are …

It is well attested that 14‐month‐olds have difficulty learning similar sounding words (eg,
bih/dih), despite their excellent phonetic discrimination abilities. By contrast, Rost and …