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 …

This review provides a summary of the most recent advances on the study of how prosody is
used during language comprehension. Prosody is characterized as an abstract structure …

Low-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic input has been hypothesized as a canonical
mechanism that shapes sensory perception in time. Neural entrainment is deemed …

We exploit the unique phonetic properties of bilingual speech to ask how processes
occurring during planning affect speech articulation, and whether listeners can use the …

Non-native speech differs from native speech in multiple ways. Previous research has
described segmental and suprasegmental differences between native and non-native …

Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …

To understand human language—both spoken and signed—the listener or viewer has to
parse the continuous external signal into components. The question of what those …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

To deal with variation in the speech signal, listeners rely on local context, such as speaking
rate in a carrier sentence directly preceding a target, as well as more global properties of the …

Listeners resolve ambiguities in speech perception using multiple sources, including non-
local or distal speech rate (ie, the speech rate of material surrounding a particular region) …