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Putting Laurel and Yanny in context
Recently, the world’s attention was caught by an audio clip that was perceived as “Laurel” or “Yanny.” Opinions were sharply split. …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Talkers produce more pronounced amplitude modulations when speaking in noise
Speakers adjust their voice when talking in noise (known as Lombard speech), facilitating speech comprehension. Recent neurobiological …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Martin Cooke
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Accounting for rate-dependent category boundary shifts in speech perception
The perception of temporal contrasts in speech is known to be influenced by the speech rate in the surrounding context. This …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Cognitive load makes speech sound fast, but does not modulate acoustic context effects
In natural situations, speech perception often takes place during the concurrent execution of other cognitive tasks, such as listening …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Eva Reinisch
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Matthias J. Sjerps
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Foreign languages sound fast: evidence from implicit rate normalization
Anecdotal evidence suggests that unfamiliar languages sound faster than one’s native language. Empirical evidence for this impression …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Eva Reinisch
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How our own speech rate influences our perception of others
In conversation, our own speech and that of others follow each other in rapid succession. Effects of the surrounding context on speech …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Native ‘um’s elicit prediction of low-frequency referents, but non-native ‘um’s do not
Speech comprehension involves extensive use of prediction. Linguistic prediction may be guided by the semantics or syntax, but also by …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Hugo Quené
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Ted Sanders
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Nivja H. De Jong
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Native speakers’ perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech
Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing practices, both fluency and accent are …
Anne-France Pinget
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Hans Rutger Bosker
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Hugo Quené
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Nivja H. De Jong
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Perceptual adaptation to segmental and syllabic reductions in continuous spoken Dutch
This study investigates if and how listeners adapt to reductions in casual continuous speech. In a perceptual learning variant of the …
Katja Poellmann
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Hans Rutger Bosker
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James M. McQueen
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Holger Mitterer
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The perception of fluency in native and nonnative speech
Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency …
Hans Rutger Bosker
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Hugo Quené
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Ted Sanders
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Nivja H. De Jong
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