Publications and Presentations

Recent and upcoming presentations

  • Bent, T. (2024) Extracting social information from speech. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

  • Bent, T. (2024) Delineating social impacts on speech perception. Laboratory Phonology, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Henry, M., Dickerson, J., Lind-Combs, H. C., Holt, R. F., Bent, T. (2024) Linguistic complexity and noise influence intelligibility for L1- and L2-accented English. ASHA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA.

  • Bent, T., Henry, M., Holt, R. F. (2024)Accent Distance Perception in Children and Adults, Psychonomics Society annual meeting, New York, NY.

  • Lind-Combs, H.C., Bent, T., Holt, R. F., & Henry, M. (2024) How rhythmic cues influence perception of accent distance across L1 and L2 English speakers. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Henry, M., Bent, T., Holt, R. F. & Lind-Combs, H.C. (2024) The contribution of suprasegmental cues to perceived L1 and L2 accent distance. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Morrisette, M., Henry, M., & Bent, T. (2024) Practical Prompting: AI Solutions for Evidence-Based Phonological intervention. Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Indianapolis, IN.

  • Henry, M. & Bent, T. (2024) Examining the effect of disordered speech on social judgments in children. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Houston, TX.

  • Bent, T. (2024) How unfamiliar accents impact word recognition in children and adults. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

  • Bent, T., Maucieri, K., Baese-Berk, M., & Ryherd, E. (2023) Lexical Effects on Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility for Healthcare Communication, Psychonomics Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

  • Crockett, S., Bent, T., Ryherd, E., Baese-Berk, M., & Manley, N. A. (2023) Individual differences in older adults’ perception of speech in hospital noise. Acoustical Society of America, Spring meeting, Chicago, IL.

  • Puckett, B., Ryherd, E., Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., & Manley, N. A. (2023) Medically Related Speech: Impacts of Age, Familiarity, and Noise on Word Recognition. Acoustical Society of America, Spring meeting, Chicago, IL.

Publications


Speech perception in children

  • Henry, M., Bent, T. & Holt, R. (2024). “They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in native and nonnative varieties of English. Journal of Child Language. Link

  • Bent, T., Holt, R. F., Van Engen, K. J., Jamsek, I. A., Arzbecker, L. J., Liang, L. & Brown, E. E. (2021). How pronunciation distance impacts word recognition for children and adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 150(6), 4103-4117. Link

  • Bent, T., Holt, R. F., Miller, K. & Libersky, E. (2019). Sentence context facilitation for children’s and adults’ recognition of native- and nonnative-accented speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 62, 423-433. Link

  • Bent, T. (2018). Development of unfamiliar accent comprehension continues through adolescence. Journal of Child Language. 45, 1400-1411. Link

  • Bent, T. & Holt, R. F. (2018). Shhh… I need quiet! Children’s understanding of American, British, and Japanese speakers. Language and Speech.61(4), 657-673. Link

  • Bent, T. & Atagi, E. (2017). Perception of nonnative-accented sentences by 5- to 8-year-olds and adults: The role of phonological processing. Language and Speech. 60(1), 110-122. Link

  • Holt, R. F. & Bent, T. (2017). Children’s use of semantic context in perception of foreign-accented speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 223-230. Link

  • Bent, T. & Atagi, E. (2015). Children’s perception of nonnative-accented sentences in noise and quiet. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 138(6), 3985-3993. Link

  • Bent, T. (2015). Development of perceptual flexibility. In Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland. Link

  • Bent, T. (2014). Children’s perception of foreign-accented words. Journal of Child Language. 41 (6) 1334-1355. Link

Other publications 

  • Holt, Y., Bent, T., Baese-Berk., M. & Rothermich, K. (2024). Race identification in American English. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 1-14. Link

  • Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., Ryherd, E., Perry, S., Puckett, B. & Manley, N. (2024). Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 9(79), 1 – 23. Link

  • Merritt, B., Bent, T., Kilgore, R., & Eads, C. (2024). Auditory free classification of gender diverse speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 155(2), 1422-1436. Link

  • Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., Ryherd, E., and Perry, S. (2022). Intelligibility of medically related sentences in quiet, speech-shaped noise, and hospital noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 151(5), 3496-3508. Link

  • Merritt, B. and Bent, T. (2022). Revisiting the acoustics of speaker gender perception: A gender expansive perspective. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 151 (1), 484-499. Link

  • Perry, S., Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M. & Ryherd, E. (2021). A novel corpus developed to evaluate the impact of hospital noise on speech intelligibility. INTER-NOISE. Link

  • Merritt, B. & Bent, T. (2020). Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Naturalness in Speakers of Varying Gender Identities. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 63(7), 2054-2069. Link

  • Bent, T. & Holt, Y. (2019) The influence of regional dialect variation on race categorization. International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. Link

  • Borrie, S., Baese-Berk, M., Van Engen, K. & Bent, T. (2017). Individual differences in processing speech in adverse listening conditions: A relationship between speech in noise and dysarthric speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141(6), 4660-4667. Link

  • Bent, T. & Holt, R. F. (2017). Representation of speech variability. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1434 Link

  • Bent, T., Loebach, J. L., Phillips, L., & Pisoni, D. B. (2011). Perceptual adaptation to sinewave-vocoded speech across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 37 (5), 1607-1616. Link

  • Bent, T., Buchwald, A. & 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. Link

  • 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. Link

  • Wright, S., Hay, J. & Bent, T. (2005) Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the name ordering conspiracy. Linguistics. Vol. 43, No. 3, 531-561. Link

  • Pierrehumbert, J., Bent, T., Munson, B., Bradlow, A. R. & Bailey, M. (2004). The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116 (4), 1905-1908. Link

Speech perception in adults
(nonnative accents and regional dialects)

  • Bent, T., Henry, M., Holt, R. F., & Lind-Combs, H. (2024). Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents. Journal of Phonetics. 107, 101357. Link

  • Bent, T., Lind-Combs, H., Holt., R.F., and Clopper, C. (2023). Perception of regional and nonnative accents: A comparison of museum laboratory and online data collection. Linguistics Vanguard. 9(s4), 361-373. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0157

  • Lind-Combs, H. C., Bent, T., Holt, R. F., Clopper, C. G., and Brown, E. (2023). Comparing Levenshtein distance and dynamic time warping in predicting listeners’ judgments of accent distance. Speech Communication. 155, 1 – 14. Link

  • Francis, A. L., Bent, T., Schumaker, J., Love, J., & Silbert, N. (2021). Listener characteristics differentially affect self-reported and physiological measures of effort associated with two challenging listening conditions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-24. Link

  • Baese-Berk, M. M., Bent, T. & Walker, K. (2021). Semantic predictability and adaptation to nonnative speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Express Letters. 1(1), 015207. Link

  • Bent, T. & Baese-Berk, M. (2021). Perceptual learning of accented speech. In J.S. Pardo, L.C. Nygaard, R.E. Remez, & D.B. Pisoni (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception. pp.428-464. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Link

  • McLaughlin, D. J., Baese-Berk, M. M., Bent, T., Borrie, B. A., & Van Engen, K. J. (2018). Coping with adversity: Individual differences in the perception of noisy and accented speech. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 80(6), 1559-1570. Link

  • Atagi, E. & Bent, T. (2017). Nonnative accent discrimination with words and sentences. Phonetica. 74 (3), 173-191. Link

  • Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M. Borrie, S. & McKee, M. (2016). Individual differences in the perception of regional, nonnative, and disordered speech varieties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140(5), 3775-3786. Link

  • Bent, T., Atagi, E., Akbik, A., & Bonifield, E. C. (2016). Classification of regional dialects, international dialects, and nonnative accents. Journal of Phonetics, 58, 104-117. Link

  • Atagi, E. & Bent, T. (2016). Auditory free classification of native and nonnative speech by nonnative listeners. Applied Psycholinguistics. 37, 241-263. Link

  • Baese-Berk, M., Bent, T., Borrie, S. & McKee, M. (2015). Individual differences in perception of unfamiliar speech. In Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland. Link

  • Atagi, E. & Bent, T. (2015). Relationship between listeners’ nonnative speech recognition and categorization abilities. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Express Letters. 137 (1), EL44-EL50. Link

  • Atagi, E. & Bent, T. (2013). Auditory free classification of nonnative speech. Journal of Phonetics. 41 (6), 509-519. Link

  • Bent, T. & Holt, R. F. (2013). The influence of talker and foreign-accent variability on word identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 133 (3), 1677-1686. Link

  • Atagi, E., & Bent, T. (2011). Perceptual dimensions of nonnative speech. In Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China pp. 260-263. Link

  • Bent, T., Kewley-Port, D., & 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. Link

  • Hayes-Harb, R., Smith, B. L., Bent, T., & 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. Link

  • Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., & Smith, B.L. (2008). Production and Perception of Temporal Patterns in Native and Non-Native Speech. Phonetica. 65 (3), 131-147. Link

  • Bradlow, A. R. & Bent, T. (2008). Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition. 106, 707-729. Link

  • Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. & 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. Link

  • Bent, T. & Bradlow, A. R. (2003). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114 (3), 1600-1610. Link

  • Bradlow, A. R., & Bent, T. (2002). The clear speech effect for non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.112 (1), 272-284. Link