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Names: Pardo, Jennifer S., editor. | Nygaard, Lynne C., editor. | Remez, Robert Ellis, editor. | Pisoni, David B., editor.
Title: The handbook of speech perception / edited by Jennifer S. Pardo, Lynne C. Nygaard, Robert E. Remez, and David B. Pisoni.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2021. | Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021008797 (print) | LCCN 2021008798 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119184089 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119184072 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119184102 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Speech perception.
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List of Contributors
Faisal M. Aljasser is an associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English language and Translation, College of Arabic Language and Social Studies at Qassim University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University, UK in 2008. His research centers on the production and perception of Arabic as a native language and as a second language.
Melissa Baese‐Berk is the David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon, where she directs the Speech Perception and Production Laboratory. She earned her PhD from Northwestern University in 2010. Her research focuses on speech perception and production, with special attention to speakers and listeners who do not share a native language with their interlocutor. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Recent publications have appeared in Cognition, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Phonetics, and Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
Tessa Bent is Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and director of the Speech Perception Laboratory at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2005. Her research focuses on children’s and adults’ perception and representation of variable speech signals, with a focus on regional dialects and non‐native accents. This research is currently supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and has previously been supported by the National Institutes of Health. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Sheila E. Blumstein is the Albert D. Mead Professor Emerita of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1970. She spent her entire professional career from 1970 until 2018 at Brown University. Her research focuses on the neural basis of speech and language and the processes and mechanisms underlying speaking and understanding. She received a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institutes of Health and The Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America and was elected Fellow to a number of professional societies.
Z. S. Bond, Professor Emerita, Ohio University, earned a Ph.D. in linguistics, with psychology and hearing and speech sciences as concentrations, from the Ohio State University. She has worked at the University of Alberta, Ohio University, Ohio State University and the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory at Wright‐ Patterson Air Force Base. Her research areas include phonetics, psychology of language, speech perception, and language contact. Currently she is analyzing the pronunciation of Latvian in recordings from WW I. She has published papers in various journals including Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Language and Speech, Perception and Psychophysics, and Journal of Phonetics. She is a member of Acoustical Society of America, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Linguistic Society of America and a foreign member of Latvian Academy of Science.
Ann R. Bradlow is the Abraham Harris Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1993, and then completed postdoctoral fellowships in Psychology at Indiana University (1993‐1996) and Hearing Science at Northwestern University (1996‐1998). Over the past three decades, Bradlow has pursued an interdisciplinary research program in acoustic phonetics and speech perception with a focus on speech intelligibility under conditions of talker‐, listener‐, and situation‐related variability. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, International Journal of Audiology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Phonetics, Language & Speech, and Bilingualism, Language, & Cognition.
Susan Brady received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Connecticut in 1975 and presently is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island. She has held additional positions at the University of Sussex, St. Andrews University, and Haskins Laboratories. Concentrating on topics in the field of reading, her research has focused primarily on the roles of speech perception and verbal working memory in individual differences in reading ability. Likewise, she has endeavored to translate the implications of the larger body of reading research for practice, and has conducted