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UChicago Speech Perception and Production Lab

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Speech Perception and Production Lab at University of Chicago; PI: m2b2.bsky.social www.speechperceptionproductionlab.c…

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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New in #LabPhon: How well do adult language learners acquire new sound contrasts, in remote vs. in-laboratory environments? Results show that both paradigms result in learning, but there are trade-offs in both protocol types. @m2b2.bsky.social @spplab.bsky.social #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Learning new speech sounds in remote and in-person protocols: Benefits, drawbacks, and considerations for future research
In-laboratory training of novel speech sounds has provided significant insight into how adult language learners learn new sounds. However, this training is often costly in terms of time in lab for par...
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UChicago Speech Perception and Production Lab @spplab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We ask how younger and older adults are impacted by hospital noise when listening to medically-related sentences. Hospital noise is hard! Especially for older adults! Especially when listening to words that are lower frequency and lower familiarity (like lots of real medical speech is!)!
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UChicago Speech Perception and Production Lab @spplab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New paper! We know a lot about how people perceive speech in noise, but little about how different types of noise affect different types of speech. For example, hospital noise is likely to co-occur with medically related speech! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Word identification accuracy is modulated by many factors including linguistic characteristics of words (frequent vs. infrequent), listening environment (noisy vs. quiet), and listener-related differe...
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UChicago Speech Perception and Production Lab @spplab.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
My lab is hiring a postdoc!!! More info is here: www.speechperceptionproductionlab.com/postdoctoral... I'm happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the ad itself!
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