Melissa Baese-Berk

Recent Publications (since 2018)

Baese-Berk, M. M., Levi, S. V. & Van Engen, K. J. (in press) Intelligibility as a measure of speech perception: Current approaches, challenges and recommendations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Baese-Berk, M. M., Chandrasekaran, B. & Roark, C. L. (2022). The nature of non-native speech sound representations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5), 3025-3034.

Baese-Berk, M. M. and Samuel, A. G. (2022) Just give it time: Differential effects of disruption and delay on perceptual learning. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Bent, T., Baese-Berk, M. 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.

Kapolowicz, M., Guest, D., Montazeri, V., Baese-Berk, M. M. & Assmann, P. (2022) Effects of spectral envelope and fundamental frequency shifts on the perception of foreign-accented speech. Language and Speech, 65(2), 1-26.

Kato, M. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2022). Perceptual consequences of native and non-native clear speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151 (2), 1246-1258.

Nagle, C. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2022). Advancing the state of the art in L2 speech perception-production research: Revisiting theoretical assumptions and methodological practices. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 1-26.

Piccolo, S. & Baese-Berk, M. M. (2022). Effect of accent perception on perception of professionalism. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 28(2), Article 15.

Staggs, C., Baese-Berk, M. M., and Nagle, C. (2022). The influence of social information on speech intelligibility within the Spanish Heritage Community. Languages, 7(3), 231.

Wright, J. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2022). The impact of phonotactic features on novel tone discrimination. Journal of Phonetics, 93, 101151 (p. 1-16).

Alderete, J., Baese-Berk, M. M., Leung, K., & Goldrick, M. (2021). Cascading activation in phonological planning and articulation: Evidence from naturalistic speech errors. Cognition. 104577.

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

Baese-Berk, M. M., Drake, S., Foster, K., Lee, D., Staggs, C., and Wright, J. (2021). Lexical diversity, lexical sophistication, and predictability for speech in multiple listening conditions. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Science, 12, 2328.

Baese-Berk, M. M. and Bradlow, A. R. (2021). Variability in speaking rate of native and non-native speech. In R. Wayland (Ed.), Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress. (pp. 312-334). Cambridge.

Bent, T. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2021) Perceptual learning of accented speech. In J. S. Pardo, L. C. Nygaard, R. R. Remez, & D. B. Pisoni (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception – 2nd Edition. (pp. 428-464). Wiley.

Kato, M. & Baese-Berk, M. M. (2021). The effect of input prompts on the relationship between perception and production. Journal of Phonetics.

Lee, D. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2021). Non-native English listeners’ adaptation to native English speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters, 1(10) 105201.

Kapolowicz, M., Montazeri, V., Baese-Berk, M. M., Zeng, F. G., and Assmann, P. F. (2020). Rapid adaptation to non-native speech is impaired in cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(3), EL267-272.

Baese-Berk, M. M., McLaughlin, D. J., & McGowan, K. B. (2020). Perception of non-native speech. Language and Linguistic Compass, 14(7), e12319.

Jaggers, Z. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2020). Investigating a bias for cue preservation in loanword adaptation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(6), EL511-EL516.

Lee, D. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2020). The maintenance of clear speech in naturalistic conversations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(5), 3702-3711. 

Baese-Berk, M. M. (2019). Interactions between speech perception and production during learning of novel phonemic categories. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 981-1005.

Baese-Berk, M. M., Dilley, L. C., Henry, M. J., Vinke, L., & Banzina, E. (2019). Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate influences perception of prosodically weak syllables. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(2), 571-589.

Baese-Berk, M. M. and Morrill, T. H. (2019). Perceptual consequences of variability in native and non-native speech.Phonetica, 76, 121-141.

Olejarczuk, P., Otero, M. and Baese-Berk, M. M. (2019). Acoustic correlates of anticipatory and progressive [ATR] harmony processes in Ethiopian Komo. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 18-41.

Trippe, J. and Baese-Berk, M. M.(2019). A prosodic profile of Aviation English.Journal of English for Specific Purposes, 53, 30-46.

Baese-Berk, M. M.Morrill, T. H., and Dilley, L. C. (2018). Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(S2).

McLaughlin, D. J., Baese-Berk, M. M., Bent, T., Borrie, S. A., van Engen, K. J. (2018). Coping with Adversity, Individual Differences in the Perception of Noisy and Accented Speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 1559-1570.

Upcoming/recent presentations and posters (Slides and posters available upon request)

The lab has recently presented work with our collaborators at:

• The 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, TN

• The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston, MA

• Mental Lexicon in Niagara on the Lake, Canada

• Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

• 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech

• 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Denver, CO

• Duolingo

• The European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratories