https://www.violetabrown.com/tags/nonnative-speech-processing/ Recent content in nonnative speech processing on Violet Brown Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.violetabrown.com/publications/brown_etal_2026/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.violetabrown.com/publications/brown_etal_2026/ Listeners typically understand speech more accurately when they can see and hear the talker relative to hearing alone. However, seeing the talker’s face does not necessarily reduce the cognitive costs associated with processing speech as measured by dual-task costs. In difficult listening conditions, dual-task response times may be faster for audiovisual than audio-only speech, but when listening conditions are easy, the presence of a talking face may have no effect on dual task responses or even slow responses relative to listening alone. https://www.violetabrown.com/publications/strand_etal_2024/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.violetabrown.com/publications/strand_etal_2024/ It is common practice in speech research to only sample participants who self-report being “native English speakers.” Although there is research on differences in language processing between native and non-native listeners (see Lecumberri et al., 2010 for a review), the majority of speech research that aims to establish general findings (e.g., testing models of spoken word recognition) only includes native speakers in their sample. Not only is the “native English speaker” criterion poorly defined, but it also excludes historically underrepresented groups from speech perception research, often without attention to whether this exclusion is likely to affect study outcomes.