This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

Traditionally, models of speech comprehension and production do not depend on concepts
and processes from the phonological short-term memory (pSTM) literature. Likewise, in …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech
are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different …

Previous research by Dupoux et al.[Dupoux, E., Pallier, C., Sebastián, N., & Mehler, J.(1997).
A destressing “deafness” in French? Journal of Memory Language 36, 406–421; Dupoux, E …

Previous research has shown that native speakers of French, as opposed to those of
Spanish, exhibit stress' deafness', ie have difficulties distinguishing stress contrasts. In …

There is converging evidence that infants are sensitive to prosodic cues from birth onwards
and use this kind of information in their earliest steps into the acquisition of words and …

Stress is accentuation of syllables within words, or of words within sentences. This chapter
deals with the first of these phenomena: lexical, or word stress. In lexical-stress languages …