Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading
textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbooks …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

This paper argues that the phonetic interpretation of phonological representations may be
controlled as well as automatic, because contextual variation in the realization of distinctive …

This study used a multi-talker database containing intelligibility scores for 2000 sentences
(20 talkers, 100 sentences), to identify talker-related correlates of speech intelligibility. We …

As with biological systems, spoken languages are strikingly robust against perturbations.
This paper shows that languages achieve robustness in a way that is highly similar to many …

The author introduces the L2 Linguistic Perception (L2LP) model, a new formal and
comprehensive proposal which integrates, synthesizes, and improves on previous studies …

In most languages, vowels are longer before voiced than before voiceless consonants.
Attempts to explain this vowel-length difference in terms of assumed physical or …

Mandarin syllables carrying a mid-high-rising F 0 contour (Tone 2) tend to be shorter than
those carrying a low-falling-rising contour (Tone 3). It is possible that talkers use length …

For listeners to recognize words, they must map temporally distributed phonetic feature cues
onto higher order phonological representations. Three experiments are reported that were …

Within the framework of optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004), Steriade (2001a, b)
proposes the P-map hypothesis, whose fundamental tenet is that the rankings of faithfulness …