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Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech by Babel, Molly

“…Listeners entertain hypotheses about how social characteristics affect a speaker’s pronunciation. While some of these hypotheses may be representative of a…”
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The own-voice benefit for word recognition in early bilinguals by Cheung, Sarah, Babel, Molly

“…The current study examines the self-voice benefit in an early bilingual population. Female Cantonese–English bilinguals produced words containing Cantonese…”
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Towards a more nuanced view of vocal attractiveness by Babel, Molly, McGuire, Grant, King, Joseph

“…This study reports on male and female Californians' ratings of vocal attractiveness for 30 male and 30 female voices reading isolated words. While ratings by…”
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The Role of Fundamental Frequency in Phonetic Accommodation by Babel, Molly, Bulatov, Dasha

“…Previous research has argued that fundamental frequency is a critical component of phonetic accommodation. We tested this hypothesis in an auditory naming task…”
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Perceptual effects of lexical competition on Cantonese tone categories by Soo, Rachel, Babel, Molly

“…Listeners use lexical information and the speech signal to categorize sounds and recognize words despite substantial acoustic-phonetic variation in natural…”
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Correction: Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese consonant mergers: Community- and individual-level perspectives by Cheng, Lauretta S. P., Babel, Molly, Yao, Yao

“…​​This article details a correction to the article: Cheng, L. S. & Babel, M. & Yao, Y., (2022) “Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese…”
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Asymmetries in Perceptual Adjustments to Non-Canonical Pronunciations by Babel, Molly, Johnson, Khia A., Sen, Christina

“…This paper examines two plausible mechanisms supporting sound category adaptation: directional shifts towards the novel pronunciation or a general category…”
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Prosodic realization and interpretation of English imperatives by McClay, Elise, Keough, Megan, Babel, Molly, Matthewson, Lisa

“…Imperative clauses can communicate a number of speech acts, and differences in intonation have been argued to prompt different interpretations. So far,…”
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Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese consonant mergers: Community- and individual-level perspectives by Cheng, Lauretta S. P., Babel, Molly, Yao, Yao

“…Individual variation is key to understanding phenomena in phonetic variation and change, including the production-perception link. To test the generalizability…”
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Do social preferences matter in lexical retuning? by Babel, Molly, Senior, Brianne, Bishop, Sophie

“…In perceiving spoken language, listeners not only recognize and comprehend the intended meaning of the speaker’s words and phrases; they also assess the social…”
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Evidence for phonetic and social selectivity in spontaneous phonetic imitation by Babel, Molly

“…Spontaneous phonetic imitation is the process by which a talker comes to be more similar-sounding to a model talker as the result of exposure. The current…”
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Loose Lips and Silver Tongues, or, Projecting Sexual Orientation Through Speech by Munson, Benjamin, Babel, Molly

“…The notion that an individual's sexual orientation can be ascertained through distinctive speech patterns abounds in popular culture. This article reviews the…”
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Dialect divergence and convergence in New Zealand English by Babel, Molly

“…Recent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic process or determined by social factors (e.g. Trudgill 2008). This paper…”
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Expectations and speech intelligibility by Babel, Molly, Russell, Jamie

“…Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech…”
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Stimulus onset asynchrony effects on perceptual learning by Soo, Rachel, Babel, Molly

“…Listeners use lexical knowledge to guide the perception of phonetically ambiguous speech sounds and for retuning phonetic category boundaries. While phonetic…”
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Dynamic auditory-acoustic properties differentiate word-final fricatives in Gitksan by Chow, Una Y., Babel, Molly

“…Gitksan is an endangered, understudied Tsimshian language spoken in northwestern British Columbia. This study aims to provide an acoustic-phonetic description…”
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Acoustically distinct and perceptually ambiguous: ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Salish) fricatives by Mellesmoen, Gloria, Babel, Molly

“…ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) is a Central Salish language spoken in British Columbia with a large fricative inventory. Previous impressionistic descriptions of…”
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Towards an understanding of tone category variability in Cantonese by Soo, Rachel, Babel, Molly

“…Cantonese is typically described as having 6 lexical tones. There are reports, however, of three mergers-in-progress; the contrasts between Tone (T) 2 and T5…”
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Cognitive Load Reduces Perceived Linguistic Convergence Between Dyads by Abel, Jennifer, Babel, Molly

“…Speech convergence is the tendency of talkers to become more similar to someone they are listening or talking to, whether that person is a conversational…”
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Stimulus-directed attention attenuates lexically-guided perceptual learning by McAuliffe, Michael, Babel, Molly

“…Studies on perceptual learning are motivated by phonetic variation that listeners encounter across speakers, items, and context. In this study, the authors…”
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