Linguistic processing of accented speech across the lifespan

A Cristia, A Seidl, C Vaughn, R Schmale… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

An ERP investigation of regional and foreign accent processing

J Goslin, H Duffy, C Floccia - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine whether we employ the same
normalisation mechanisms when processing words spoken with a regional accent or foreign …

Sociophonetic variation in vowel categorization of Australian English

D Loakes, J Clothier, J Hajek… - Language and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to
investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel …

[LIVRE][B] Sprache und Wissen

E Felder, E Felder, M Müller - 2009 - degruyter.com
Autorinnen und Autoren Page 1 Autorinnen und Autoren EKKEHARD FELDER Dr. phil.,
Professor für Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Heidelberg. Forschungsinteressen …

Change and novelty detection in speech and non-speech sound streams

A Sorokin, P Alku, T Kujala - Brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study was to determine differences in cortical processing of
consonant–vowel syllables and acoustically matched non-speech sounds, as well as novel …

The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change

J Harrington, F Kleber, U Reubold… - The Routledge …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The chapter is concerned with how the mechanisms of human speech processing can
occasionally give rise to historical sound change. The starting point is the origin of sound …

Dialect variation influences the phonological and lexical-semantic word processing in sentences. Electrophysiological evidence from a cross-dialectal comprehension …

M Lanwermeyer, K Henrich, MJ Rocholl… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This event-related potential (ERP) study examines the influence of dialectal competence
differences (merged vs. unmerged dialect group) on cross-dialectal comprehension …

When speaker identity is unavoidable: Neural processing of speaker identity cues in natural speech

A Tuninetti, K Chládková, V Peter, NO Schiller… - Brain and language, 2017 - Elsevier
Speech sound acoustic properties vary largely across speakers and accents. When
perceiving speech, adult listeners normally disregard non-linguistic variation caused by …

Automatic recognition of regional phonological variation in conversational interaction

V Aubanel, N Nguyen - Speech Communication, 2010 - Elsevier
One key aspect of face-to-face communication concerns the differences that may exist
between the speakers' native regional accents. This paper focuses on the characterization of …

Speech rhythm: The language-specific integration of pitch and duration

RE Cumming - 2010 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Experimental phonetic research on speech rhythm seems to have reached an impasse.
Recently, this research field has tended to investigate produced (rather than perceived) …