Publications and Presentations

Recent presentations

2025    Baese-Berk, M, Bent, T., & Ryherd, E. The Influence of Physical Context on Speech Perception. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

2025    Bent, T., Henry, M., Kilgore, R., Merritt, B., Tsai, T. P., & Xanders, A. How talker and listener gender identity impact spontaneous speech descriptors. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

2025    White, S., Whisler, D., Holly, A., Bent, T., Ryherd, E. & Baese-Berk, M. Gamification: Virtual Medical Scenarios to Explore the Impact of Hospital Noise on Comprehension and Memory. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

2025    Tsai, T. P. & Bent, T. How twang vocal timbre impacts intelligibility in noise. Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

2025    Fabode, C., Bent, T., & Ko, F. Effect of Familiar Voices on Discourse Comprehension. ASHA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

2025    Henry, M. & Bent. T. Examining Peer's Friendship Preferences and Social Judgments of Children with SSDs. ASHA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

2025    Bent, T., Holt, R. F., Sershen, M., Reusch, P., Hale, R., Ingram, A. C., & Henry M. How children spontaneously describe talkers from speech. Fall meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI.

2025    Baese-Berk, M., Bent, T., White, S., Tsai, T. P., Branson, S. & Kilaras, G. The impact of hospital noise on comprehension and memory for medically-related speech. Fall meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI.

Publications


Speech perception in children

  • Henry, M. & Bent, T. (accepted). Let’s be friends… Peer perceptions of disordered speech in preschool and early school-aged children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

  • Holt, R. F., Bent, T., Henry, M. & Lind-Combs, H. (submitted). Intelligibility of unfamiliar accents in quiet and noise develops into adolescence.

  • Bent, T., Henry, M., Henry, J. & Holt, R. (submitted). Perception of accent distance by children and adults: Identifying acoustic-phonetic parameters using machine learning.

  • Henry, M., Bent, T. & Holt, R. (2025). “They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in native and nonnative varieties of English. Journal of Child Language, 52(4), 762-785. 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 

  • Bent, T. (2025). I can’t hear you without my glasses. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 157(3), R5-R6.

  • Tsai, T-P., Bent, T., & Henry, M. (2025). How vocal timbre impacts word identification and listening effort in traffic-shaped noises. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters, 5(7), 075204

  • Bent, T., Maucieri, K., Baese-Berk, M. & Ryherd, E. (in press). Audiovisual speech perception with less familiar and frequent words. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

  • 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
(first and second language accents)

  • 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