Speech Perception Lab
Principal Investigator: Jessica Maye, Ph.D
j-maye@northwestern.edu
Lab Location: Frances Searle Building 2-305
Lab Phone: (847)-491-2183; Fax: (847)-467-2776
Overview
Research in the Speech Perception Lab investigates the manner by which adult listeners decode the acoustic signal of spoken language. The acoustic form of a particular speech sound varies dramatically from utterance to utterance, yet this variability poses no problem for listeners, whose ability to identify spoken words seems under normal circumstances to be effortless. Our research focuses on the perceptual processes underlying this ability, as well as the learning mechanisms involved in the adjustment to new phonetic environments. Experiments in the lab typically employ methods that test listeners’ identification and/or discrimination of natural or synthetic speech sounds.
Description of Lab Projects in Progress
Papers Related to Lab Projects
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Collaborators
Kyle Chambers
LouAnn Gerken
Daniel Weiss
Societies
Acoustical Society of America
American Psychological Association
Society for Research on Child Development
Meetings
ASA Meetings
ASA Biennial Meeting
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Conference on Laboratory Phonology
CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing
