Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Zheng, Yi"
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Does seeing an Asian face make speech sound more accented?
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2017)Prior studies have reported that seeing an Asian face makes American English sound more accented. The current study investigates whether this effect is perceptual, or if it instead occurs at a later decision stage. We ... -
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (ELSEVIER, 2023)Perceptual stability is obviously advantageous, but being able to adjust to the prevailing environment is also adaptive. Previous research has identified ways in which the categorization of speech sounds shifts as a ... -
How much do visual cues help listeners in perceiving accented speech?
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019)It has been documented that lipreading facilitates the understanding of difficult speech, such as noisy speech and time-compressed speech. However, relatively little work has addressed the role of visual information in ... -
The effects of ethnicity, musicianship, and tone language experience on pitch perception
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018)Article information Article has an altmetric score of 3 Free Access Article Information Volume: 71 issue: 12, page(s): 2627-2642 Article first published online: February 16, 2018; Issue published: December 1, ... -
The Relationship Between Phonemic Category Boundary Changes and Perceptual Adjustments to Natural Accents
Zheng, Yi; Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020)People often experience difficulties when they first hear a novel accent. Prior research has shown that relatively fast natural accent accommodation can occur. However, there has been little investigation of the underlying ...