Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of audiovisual integration in speech is discussed and the importance of audio feedback in support of perception of noise-vocalized speech is highlighted.

TL;DR: The authors discusses second language pronunciation of Mandarin from the perspective of the native Mandarin speakers who listen to it and provides a framework for defining foreign accent and for distinguishing accented pronunciation from pronunciation errors.

TL;DR: This article examined whether grammatical acceptability judgements differ for native versus non-native speech and found that participants rated native-accented sentences as more grammatical, demonstrating a role for talker identity in perceptions of grammaticality.

TL;DR: The authors explored the effect of cognitive load on accent ratings of foreign-accented speakers and found that cognitive load led to significantly weaker accent ratings for non-native speakers compared to native speakers.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the importance of stimulus variability and task-related factors in training nonnative speakers to perceive novel phonetic contrasts that are not distinctive in their native language.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of speech sounds, and lexical information can thus be used to train categorization of speech.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effects of training in /r/−/l/ perceptual identification on Japanese spoken utterances and found that the knowledge gained during perceptual learning transferred to the production domain, and thus provided novel information regarding the relationship between speech perception and production.

TL;DR: The results of the present experiments suggest that variability plays an important role in perceptual learning and robust category formation and that listeners develop talker-specific, context-dependent representations for new phonetic categories by selectively shifting attention toward the contrastive dimensions of the non-native phonetic category categories.