The extreme acoustic variability of speech is well established, which makes the proficiency
of human speech perception all the more impressive. Speech perception, like perception in …

One of the challenges in speech perception is that listeners must deal with considerable
segmental and suprasegmental variability in the acoustic signal due to differences between …

The acoustic dimensions that distinguish speech sounds (like the vowel differences in “boot”
and “boat”) also differentiate speakers' voices. Therefore, listeners must normalize across …

In tonal languages, speech variability arises in both lexical tone (ie, suprasegmentally) and
vowel quality (segmentally). Listeners can use surrounding speech context to overcome …

Speech sounds are perceived relative to spectral properties of surrounding speech. For
instance, target words that are ambiguous between/bɪt/(with low F1) and/bɛt/(with high F1) …

Different speakers produce the same intended vowel with very different physical properties.
Fundamental frequency (F 0) and formant frequencies (FF), the two main parameters that …

To achieve perceptual constancy, listeners utilize contextual cues to normalize speech
variabilities in speakers. The present study tested the time course of this cognitive process …

Listeners adjust their perception of sound categories when confronted with variations in
speech. Previous research on speech recalibration has primarily focused on segmental …

Speech perception is heavily influenced by surrounding sounds. When spectral properties
differ between earlier (context) and later (target) sounds, this can produce spectral contrast …

This study examines the effect of preceding tones on tone perception within Mandarin
disyllabic utterances and the underlying mechanism that causes such an effect. Listeners …