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Accents and Adverse Conditions: Investigating the Effects of Semantic and Phonemic Information on Accented Speech Comprehension
DownloadFall 2024
Under normal conversational conditions, listeners are typically able to adapt to a speaker’s accent or idiosyncrasies with relative ease. While this is a well-established phenomenon, the exact mechanisms which allow fast adaptation are not yet entirely understood, and there are a variety of...
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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...