Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on
from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas …

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use,
subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others …

Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic
differences (eg Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of …

Speakers can produce utterances with more or less articulatory detail or even completely
omit certain words, while still conveying the same message. Similar reduction exists at …

A diverse set of empirical findings indicate that word predictability in context influences the
fine-grained details of both speech production and comprehension. In particular, lower …

While speaking, a speaker needs to translate his thoughts into intelligible sounds fast. This
rapid translation of thoughts to speech transpires in roughly three stages: by conceptualizing …

Evidence suggests that speakers hyperarticulate phonetic cues to word identity in a way that
increases phonetic distance to similar competitors. However, the degree and type of …

Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

Tashlhiyt is a low-resource language with respect to acoustic databases, language corpora,
and speech technology tools, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. This …