Publications and Presentations

Recent and upcoming presentations

  • Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., Ryherd, E., & Perry, S. (2022). Older adults’ perception of medically-related sentences in three listening conditions. Acoustical Society of America, Spring meeting, Denver, CO.

  • Henry, M., Bent, T. & Holt, R. (2022). Children’s perception of accent distance for native and nonnative varieties. Acoustical Society of America, Spring meeting, Denver, CO.

  • Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M., Ryherd, E., & Perry, S. (2021). How hospital noise impacts intelligibility of medically-related sentences. Acoustical Society of America, Fall meeting, Seattle, WA.

  • Lind-Combs, H., Bent, T., Holt, R. F., & Clopper, C. G. (2021). Comparing Levenshtein distance and dynamic time warping in predicting listeners’ judgements of accent distance. Acoustical Society of America, Fall meeting, Seattle, WA.

  • Merritt, B. & Bent, T. (2021). How intonation and articulation cues impact gender perception for cisgender and transgender speakers. Acoustical Society of America, Fall meeting, Seattle, WA.

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

Publications

Speech perception in children

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

Other publications 

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Wright, S., Hay, J. & 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. & Bailey, M. (2004). The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116 (4), 1905-1908.

Speech perception in adults (nonnative accents and regional dialects)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.