During our everyday lives, we are confronted with a vast amount of information from several
sensory modalities. This multisensory information needs to be appropriately integrated for us …

Numerous studies have documented the phenomenon of phonetic imitation: the process by
which the production patterns of an individual become more similar on some phonetic or …

Using the structural priming paradigm, the present study explores predictions made by the
implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH) by testing whether an implicit prosodic boundary …

Perceptual compensation for coarticulation (PCCA) refers to listener responses consistent
with perceptual reduction of the acoustic effects of the coarticulatory context on a target …

Individual variation is ubiquitous in the acoustic realization of human speech; however, little
is known about the nature of individual differences in coarticulation. Through an in-depth …

Previous research has shown differential degrees of attention in processing hierarchical
linguistic information where higher order cues require greater attention in speech …

Phonetic imitation, or implicitly matching the acousticphonetic patterns of another speaker,
has been empirically associated with natural tendencies to promote successful social …

Predictable words tend to be phonetically reduced relative to unpredictable words. Under
“listener-oriented” accounts of this phenomenon, the talker has tacit knowledge of their …

Abstract Current theories of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) suggest atypical use of context
in ASD, but little is known about how these atypicalities influence speech perception. We …

Phonetic reduction is a common feature of everyday speech. Numerous studies have
documented that words, syllables, and other linguistic elements which are more predictable …