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Whisper automatic speech recognition and humans are similarly sensitive to accents, but use sentence context differently Open

Junrong Chen, Julia Kwong, Sarah Paull, Sarah C. Creel · 2025

Despite advancements in speech recognition technology, questions remain about model generalizability and how much models mirror human comprehension. These questions are addressed by comparing OpenAI's Whisper model and 75 human transcriber…

Accented sentence and word recognition: Humans versus whisper automatic speech recognition Open

Junrong Chen, Julia Kwong, Sarah C. Creel · 2024

Despite advancements in speech recognition technology, questions remain about model generalizability and how much models mirror human perception. These questions are addressed by comparing OpenAI's Whisper model and 75 human transcribers o…

Connecting the tots: Strong looking‐pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development Open

Sarah C. Creel · 2024

How does one assess developmental change when the measures themselves change with development? Most developmental studies of word learning use either looking (infants) or pointing (preschoolers and older). With little empirical evidence of…

Minimal gains for minimal pairs: Difficulty in learning similar-sounding words continues into preschool Open

Sarah C. Creel, Conor Frye · 2023

A critical indicator of spoken language knowledge is the ability to discern the finest possible distinctions that exist between words in a language-minimal pairs, for example, the distinction between the novel words beesh and peesh. Infant…

Language-to-music transfer effects depend on the tone language: Akan vs. East Asian tone languages Open

Sarah C. Creel, Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Sharon Rose · 2023

No Heightened Musical Pitch Weighting For Tone Language Speakers in Early Childhood Open

Sarah C. Creel, Reina Mizrahi, Alicia Escobedo, Li Zhao, Gail D. Heyman · 2023

Numerous studies suggest that speakers of some tone languages show advantages in musical pitch processing compared to non-tone language speakers. A recent study in adults (Jasmin et al., 2021) suggests that in addition to heightened pitch …

Are There Cross-Domain Entrainment Effects from Tones to Speech Sound Perception? Open

Tzu-Han Zoe Cheng, Sarah C. Creel · 2023

Perception of ATR contrasts by Akan speakers: a case of perceptual near-merger Open

Sharon Rose, Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Sarah C. Creel · 2022

Despite many acoustic, articulatory and phonological studies of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel contrasts and vowel harmony, studies of the perception of ATR contrasts by speakers of languages with ATR vowel distinctions are lacking. This…

Haunting melodies: Specific memories distort beat perception Open

Sarah C. Creel · 2022

How much does specific previous experience shape immediate perception? Top-down perceptual inference occurs in ambiguous situations. However, similarity-based accounts such as exemplar theory suggest that similar memories resonate with the…

Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability Open

Conor Frye, Sarah C. Creel · 2022

Children's language input is rife with acoustic variability. Much of this variability may facilitate learning by highlighting unvarying, criterial speech attributes. But in many cases, learners experience variation in those criterial attri…

How Do You Feel the Rhythm: Dynamic Motor-Auditory Interactions Are Involved in the Imagination of Hierarchical Timing Open

Tzu-Han Zoe Cheng, Sarah C. Creel, John R. Iversen · 2021

Predicting and organizing patterns of events is important for humans to survive in a dynamically changing world. The motor system has been proposed to be actively, and necessarily, engaged in not only the production but the perception of r…

Impacts of<span>acoustic‐phonetic</span>variability on perceptual development for spoken language: A review Open

Carolyn Quam, Sarah C. Creel · 2021

This article reviews research on when acoustic‐phonetic variability facilitates, inhibits, or does not impact perceptual development for spoken language, to illuminate mechanisms by which variability aids learning of language sound pattern…

Referential Pacts with Preschoolers Maximize Testable Words and Reveal Changes in Construal. Open

Kristie McCrary Kambourakis, Sarah C. Creel · 2021

Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community Open

David J. Baker, Amy M. Belfi, Sarah C. Creel, Jessica A. Grahn, Erin E. Hannon , et al. · 2020

This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States led to public outcry and international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and broader awareness of the effec…

Metrical Restoration From Local and Global Melodic Cues Open

Sarah C. Creel · 2020

What factors influence listeners’ perception of meter in a musical piece or a musical style? Many cues are available in the musical “surface,” i.e., the pattern of sounds physically present during listening. Models of meter processing focu…

Difficulty in learning similar-sounding words: a developmental stage or a general property of learning? Open

Roger Lévy, Sarah C. Creel, Bożena Pająk · 2019

How are languages learned, and to what extent are learning mechanisms similar in infant native-language (L1) and adult second-language (L2) acquisition? In terms of vocabulary acquisition, we know from the infant literature that the abilit…

The familiar-melody advantage in auditory perceptual development: Parallels between spoken language acquisition and general auditory perception Open

Sarah C. Creel · 2019

Tone Attrition in Mandarin Speakers of Varying English Proficiency Open

Carolyn Quam, Sarah C. Creel · 2017

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether the degree of dominance of Mandarin–English bilinguals' languages affects phonetic processing of tone content in their native language, Mandarin. Method We tested 72 Mandarin–Engli…

Speaking a tone language enhances musical pitch perception in 3–5‐year‐olds Open

Sarah C. Creel, Mengxing Weng, Genyue Fu, Gail D. Heyman, Kang Lee · 2017

Young children learn multiple cognitive skills concurrently (e.g., language and music). Evidence is limited as to whether and how learning in one domain affects that in another during early development. Here we assessed whether exposure to…

Mandarin-English Bilinguals Process Lexical Tones in Newly Learned Words in Accordance with the Language Context Open

Carolyn Quam, Sarah C. Creel · 2017

Previous research has mainly considered the impact of tone-language experience on ability to discriminate linguistic pitch, but proficient bilingual listening requires differential processing of sound variation in each language context. He…

Difficulty in learning similar-sounding words: A developmental stage or a general property of learning? Open

Bożena Pająk, Sarah C. Creel, Roger Lévy · 2016

How are languages learned, and to what extent are learning mechanisms similar in infant native-language (L1) and adult second-language (L2) acquisition? In terms of vocabulary acquisition, we know from the infant literature that the abilit…

Apples and Oranges: Developmental Discontinuities in Spoken-Language Processing? Open

Sarah C. Creel, Carolyn Quam · 2015

Ups and Downs in Auditory Development: Preschoolers’ Sensitivity to Pitch Contour and Timbre Open

Sarah C. Creel · 2015

Much research has explored developing sound representations in language, but less work addresses developing representations of other sound patterns. This study examined preschool children's musical representations using two different tasks…

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