Phonetics and Phonology Research

Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures

The paper shows spectro-temporal acoustical features reliably distinguish speech from song across 21 societies using machine learning and human listener analysis.

Functional benefits of continuous vs. categorical listening strategies on the neural encoding and perception of noise-degraded speech

This study compares continuous and categorical listening strategies on speech perception in noise, finding continuous strategies improve performance and neural resilience.

Perceptual formant discrimination during speech movement planning

The paper tests if speech planning affects perceptual sensitivity to vowel formant discrimination, finding reduced sensitivity before speaking.

Influence of social and semantic contexts on phonetic encoding in naturalistic conversations

The paper investigates how semantic and social contexts affect phonetic encoding in natural conversations using a speech-in-noise paradigm, finding that dialogues and intact conversations improve performance.

Manual gestures facilitate learning lexical stress by modulating auditory neural responses

This study shows that manual gestures enhance lexical stress learning by modulating auditory neural responses, with effects dependent on the alignment of gesture and speech features.

Neural representations of non-native speech reflect proficiency and interference from native language knowledge

The paper examines neural representations of non-native speech in native Dutch listeners, finding evidence of native language interference and proficiency-related changes in acoustic processing.

The More Unclear the Hearing, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Subjective Speech Rate

This study shows that speech comprehension affects perceived speech rate, with language proficiency modulating this effect.

Representations of fricatives in sub-cortical model responses: comparisons with human consonant perception

The paper models neural responses to fricatives in the auditory nerve and inferior colliculus, finding that these responses better predict consonant perception than stimulus spectra.

Vowel and formant representation in human auditory speech cortex

The paper investigates how human auditory speech cortex processes vowel formants, finding localized formant tuning and population-level vowel category decoding.

Acoustic Correlates of the Syllabic Rhythm of Speech: Modulation Spectrum or Local Features of the Temporal Envelope

The paper analyzes speech envelope modulation spectrum and local temporal features to determine their relationship with syllable rhythm across multiple languages.

Perceptual warping exposes categorical representations for speech in human brainstem responses

This study shows that perceptual warping and categorical speech representations occur in the human brainstem, with neural responses reflecting top-down processing during active listening.

Predictive coordination of breathing during speaking and listening

The paper investigates breathing coordination during speaking and listening, finding inhalation depth correlates with speech envelope power and inhalation alignment during listening to one's own speech.

Acoustic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Lombard Effect

This study examines acoustic and electroencephalography changes during the Lombard effect in participants with normal hearing and voice, finding increased vocal intensity and altered ERP responses.

An ERP investigation of accented isolated single word processing

This study investigates how dialectal and foreign accents affect speech processing using ERP data, finding support for the Different Processes Hypothesis in both early and later processing stages.

Short-term perceptual re-weighting in suprasegmental categorization

The paper shows that listeners adjust the perceptual weight of acoustic speech dimensions during suprasegmental categorization, down-weighting less relevant dimensions in accented speech.

Intelligibility improves perception of timing changes in speech

This study shows that intelligibility improves the perception of timing changes in speech by linking rhythm perception to the extraction of linguistic units.

Nonlinear dynamics in auditory cortical activity reveal the neural basis of perceptual warping in speech categorization

The paper investigates how perceptual warping in speech categorization is influenced by stimulus history, showing frontotemporal brain interactions.

Speech Sound Discrimination by Mongolian Gerbils

This study shows that Mongolian gerbils can discriminate speech sounds similarly to humans, using formant frequencies for vowels and articulatory features for consonants, though requiring higher signal-to-noise ratios.

Event-related potential correlates of learning to produce novel foreign phonemes

The paper investigates neural correlates of learning to pronounce novel foreign phonemes using ERP recordings, finding that late slow waves correlate with pronunciation improvement.

Going beyond rote auditory learning: Neural patterns of generalized auditory learning

This study compares neural responses to generalized and rote auditory learning, finding distinct patterns in early auditory processing for generalized learning.

Attention differentially affects acoustic and phonetic feature encoding in a multispeaker environment.

This study shows attention enhances phonetic feature processing but not acoustic processing in a multispeaker environment using EEG data.

The channel capacity of multilevel linguistic features constrains speech comprehension

This study investigates how multilevel linguistic features constrain speech comprehension by measuring their individual impacts and channel capacities.

Temporal fine structure influences voicing confusions for consonant identification in multi-talker babble

The paper investigates how temporal fine structure (TFS) affects consonant identification in multi-talker babble, finding that TFS conveys voicing information beyond what envelopes convey.

Working memory relates to individual differences in speech category learning: Insights from computational modeling and pupillometry

This study examines how individual differences in working memory affect non-native speech category learning through computational modeling and pupillometry, finding that higher working memory correlates with faster and more effective learning.

Relevance of Auditory Errors Decreases When Errors Are Introduced Suddenly

The paper examines how the speech motor system adapts to task-relevant and task-irrelevant errors introduced gradually versus suddenly, finding reduced differences in adaptive responses when errors are sudden.

Perceiving and remembering speech depend on multifractal nonlinearity in movements producing and exploring speech

This study shows that multifractal nonlinearity in listener movements during speech perception supports speech fluency and memory.

Calibration of consonant perception to room reverberation

This study investigates how consonant perception is affected by preceding speech carriers in different acoustic environments and finds that inconsistent carriers disrupt perception more than consistent ones.

What canonical online and offline measures of statistical learning can and cannot tell us

The paper replicates findings showing adults detect speech structure quickly but finds weak correlation between two SL measures, suggesting online tasks capture more dynamic information.

Auditory cortex is susceptible to lexical influence as revealed by informational vs. energetic masking of speech categorization

This study investigates how lexical influence affects speech categorization in auditory cortex through informational vs. energetic masking, finding differential effects on behavior and neural responses.

Beat gestures influence which speech sounds you hear

The paper shows that beat gestures influence speech perception by affecting lexical stress and vowel perception, demonstrating a manual McGurk effect.