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The role of temporal amplitude modulations in the political arena: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
Speech is an acoustic signal with inherent amplitude modulations in the 1-9 Hz range. Recent models of speech perception propose that …
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Whether long-term tracking of speech rate affects perception depends on who is talking
Speech rate is known to modulate perception of temporally ambiguous speech sounds. For instance, a vowel may be perceived as short when …
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Listening under cognitive load makes speech sound fast
Listeners interpret local temporal cues (e.g., vowel durations) relative to the surrounding speech rate. For instance, an ambiguous …
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Our own speech rate influences speech perception
During conversation, spoken utterances occur in rich acoustic contexts, including speech produced by our interlocutor(s) and speech we …
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Both native and non-native disfluencies trigger listeners’ attention
Disfluencies, such as uh and uhm, are known to help the listener in speech comprehension. For instance, disfluencies may elicit …
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Normalization for speechrate in native and nonnative speech
Speech perception involves a number of processes that deal with variation in the speech signal. One such process is normalization for …
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Choosing a threshold for silent pauses to measure second language fluency
Second language (L2) research often involves analyses of acoustic measures of fluency. The studies investigating fluency, however, have …
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