Speech Perception Laboratory
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University

Cross-language speech perception

Bent, T., Kewley-Port, D., and Ferguson, S. H. (2010). Across-talker effects on non-native
listeners’ vowel perception in noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128 (5), 3142-3151.
Hayes-Harb, R., Smith, B. L., Bent, T., and Bradlow, A. R. (2008). Production and Perception of Final Voiced and Voiceless Consonants by Native English and Native Mandarin Speakers: Implications Regarding the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit. Journal of Phonetics. 36 (4), 664-679.
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., and Smith, B.L. (2008). Production and Perception of Temporal Patterns in Native and Non-Native Speech. Phonetica. 65 (3), 131-147.
Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2008). Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition. 106, 707-729.
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. and Wright, B. (2006). The influence of linguistic experience on the cognitive processing of pitch in speech and non-speech sounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 32(1), 97-103.
Bent, T. and Bradlow, A. R. (2003). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114 (3), 1600-1610.
Bradlow, A. R., and Bent, T. (2002). The clear speech effect for non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.112 (1), 272-284.

Cochlear-implant simulated speech

Bent, T., Loebach, J. L., Phillips, L., and Pisoni, D. B. (accepted). Perceptual adaptation to sinewave-vocoded speech across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Bent, T., Buchwald, A. and Pisoni, D. B. (2009). Perceptual Adaptation and Intelligibility of Multiple Talkers for Two Types of Degraded Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 126 (5), 2660-2669.
Loebach, J. L., Bent, T. and Pisoni, D. B. (2008). Multiple routes to perceptual learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 124 (1), 552-561.

Other

Wright, S., Hay, J. and Bent, T. (2005) Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the name ordering conspiracy. Linguistics. Vol. 43, No. 3, 531-561.
Pierrehumbert, J., Bent, T., Munson, B., Bradlow, A. R. and Bailey, M. (2004). The Influence of Sexual Orientation on Vowel Production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116 (4), 1905-1908.

Book Chapters

Bent, T. and Pisoni, D. B. (2008). Comparisons in perception between speech and non-speech signals. In Ball, M. J., Perkins, M. R., Muller, N., & Howard, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 400-411.
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. and Smith, B. L. (2007). Segmental errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All's well that begins well. In Munro, M. and Bohn, O.-S. (Eds.), Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 331-347.

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Bent, T. (2011). Foreign-accented Speech Database for Children. Workshop on New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research. Philadelphia, PA.
Bent, T. (2010). Lexical influences on children’s perception of foreign-accented speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128 (4), 2486.
Bent, T. (2010). Phonation: Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader. Invited presentation for the session “Listen Up and Get Involved.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127 (3), 1912.
Bent, T. (2010). Native and non-native speech database for children. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America. 127 (3), 1905.
Bent, T., Loebach, J. L., Phillips, L. and Pisoni, D. B. (2009). Perceptual adaptation to sinewave-vocoded speech across languages. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125 (4),
Pt. 2, 2751.
Holt, R.F., Bent, T., and Hernandez, L. (2009). Color effects in audiovisual spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125 (4), Pt. 2, 2657.
Bergeson, T. R., Till, S., and Bent, T. (2009). Perception of indexical information in infant-directed speech using cochlear implant simulations. Society for Research on Child Development Biannual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Bent, T. and Kewley-Port, D. (2008). The influence of signal-to-noise ratio and listener’s native language on vowel intelligibility. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 124 (4), Pt. 2, 2595.
Loebach, J.L., Bent, T., Peterson, N., Hay-McCutcheon, M. and Pisoni, D.B. (2008). The perception of speech and environmental sounds by normal hearing listeners and cochlear implant users. 31st Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, AZ.