Don't force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks

KS Apfelbaum, E Kutlu, B McMurray… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Research on speech categorization and phoneme recognition has relied heavily on tasks in
which participants listen to stimuli from a speech continuum and are asked to either classify …

The Buckeye corpus of conversational speech: Labeling conventions and a test of transcriber reliability

MA Pitt, K Johnson, E Hume, S Kiesling… - Speech …, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper describes the Buckeye corpus of spontaneous American English speech, a
307,000-word corpus containing the speech of 40 talkers from central Ohio, USA. The …

Dimension-selective attention as a possible driver of dynamic, context-dependent re-weighting in speech processing

LL Holt, AT Tierney, G Guerra, A Laffere, F Dick - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
The contribution of acoustic dimensions to an auditory percept is dynamically adjusted and
reweighted based on prior experience about how informative these dimensions are across …

Within-category VOT affects recovery from “lexical” garden-paths: Evidence against phoneme-level inhibition

B McMurray, MK Tanenhaus, RN Aslin - Journal of memory and language, 2009 - Elsevier
Spoken word recognition shows gradient sensitivity to within-category voice onset time
(VOT), as predicted by several current models of spoken word recognition, including TRACE …

Evaluating the sources and functions of gradiency in phoneme categorization: An individual differences approach.

EC Kapnoula, MB Winn, EJ Kong… - Journal of …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
During spoken language comprehension listeners transform continuous acoustic cues into
categories (eg,/b/and/p/). While long-standing research suggests that phonetic categories …

Infant directed speech and the development of speech perception: Enhancing development or an unintended consequence?

B McMurray, KA Kovack-Lesh, D Goodwin… - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Infant directed speech (IDS) is a speech register characterized by simpler sentences, a
slower rate, and more variable prosody. Recent work has implicated it in more subtle …

Speech categorization develops slowly through adolescence.

B McMurray, A Danelz, H Rigler… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring
primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies …

Spoken word recognition

D Dahan, JS Magnuson - Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Spoken word recognition is a distinct subsystem providing the interface
among low-level perception and cognitive processes of retrieval, parsing, and interpretation …

Co** with phonological assimilation in speech perception: Evidence for early compensation

H Mitterer, L Blomert - Perception & psychophysics, 2003 - Springer
The pronunciation of the same word may vary considerably as a consequence of its context.
The Dutch word tuin (English, garden) may be pronounced tuim if followed by bank (English …

Gradient sensitivity to within-category variation in words and syllables.

B McMurray, RN Aslin, MK Tanenhaus… - Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Five experiments monitored eye movements in phoneme and lexical identification tasks to
examine the effect of within-category subphonetic variation on the perception of stop …