My work seeks to quantify the consequences of the phonetic variability in speech. I am interested in how listeners adapt to the variability present in the speech signal, how this learning can best be facilitated, and how children develop the ability to accurately and effortlessly perceive highly variable speech signals, including foreign-accented speech.
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., and Smith, B.L. (2008). Production and Perception of Temporal Patterns in Native and Non-Native Speech. Phonetica. 65 (3), 131-147.
Loebach, J. L., Bent, T. and Pisoni, D. B. (2008). Multiple routes to perceptual learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 124 (1), 552-561.
Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2008). Perceptual adaptation to non- native speech. Cognition. 106, 707-729.
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. and Wright, B. (2006). The influence of linguistic experience on the cognitive processing of pitch in speech and non-speech sounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 32(1), 97-103.
Bent, T. and Bradlow, A. R. (2003). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114 (3), 1600-1610.
