Catherine Best

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According to Wikipedia, Catherine Best is an American psycholinguist and Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at Western Sydney University. She is known for her works on speech perception and production.

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A direct realist view of cross-language speech perception (1995) (1343)
Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities (2007) (1035)
Examination of perceptual reorganization for nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants. (1988) (767)
Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener's native phonological system. (2001) (658)
The emergence of native-language phonological influences in infants: A perceptual assimilation model. (1994) (600)
Effects of phonological and phonetic factors on cross-language perception of approximants (1992) (385)
Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners (2004) (318)
Categorical perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese bilinguals (1981) (300)
Infants' Listening Preferences: Baby Talk or Happy Talk? (2002) (258)
Cross-language Perception of Non-native Tonal Contrasts: Effects of Native Phonological and Phonetic Influences (2010) (253)
Perceptual equivalence of acoustic cues in speech and nonspeech perception (1981) (234)
Infant Perception of Non-Native Consonant Contrasts that Adults Assimilate in Different Ways (2003) (223)
Divergent developmental patterns for infants' perception of two nonnative consonant contrasts (1995) (175)
Learning to perceive the sound pattern of english (1995) (139)
Null Subject Versus Null Object: Some Evidence From the Acquisition of (1992) (137)
Emergence of Language-Specific Constraints in Perception of Non-Native Speech: A Window on Early Phonological Development (1993) (136)
Hemispheric function and collaboration in the child (1985) (123)
Development of Phonological Constancy (2009) (118)
A Cardiac Measure of Cerebral Asymmetries in Infant Auditory Perception. (1977) (117)
Perceptual Assimilation and Discrimination of Non-Native Vowel Contrasts (2014) (111)
Phonetic vs. phonological influences on French listeners' perception of American English approximants (1999) (105)
Inter-language interference in VOT production by L2-dominant bilinguals: Asymmetries in phonetic code-switching (2011) (102)
Development of infant ear asymmetries for speech and music (1982) (97)
VOCABULARY SIZE IS ASSOCIATED WITH SECOND-LANGUAGE VOWEL PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE IN ADULT LEARNERS (2011) (87)
Two ways to listen: Do L2-dominant bilinguals perceive stop voicing according to language mode? (2012) (86)
Vocabulary size matters: The assimilation of second-language Australian English vowels to first-language Japanese vowel categories (2011) (84)
Lexical effects in the perception and production of American English /p/ allophones (1997) (82)
Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals' productions in both L1 and L2 (2010) (81)
Young infants’ perception of liquid coarticulatory influences on following stop consonants (1990) (80)
Discrimination of English /r-l/ and /w-y/ by Japanese infants at 6-12 months: language-specific developmental changes in speech perception abilities (1994) (79)
Manifestation of prosodic structure in articulatory variation: Evidence from lip kinematics in English (2006) (79)
Trading relations in the perception of speech by 5-year-old children. (1984) (78)
Discrimination of synthetic full-formant and sinewave/ra-la/continua by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). (1995) (77)
Development of phonological constancy: 19-month-olds, but not 15-month-olds, identify words in a non-native regional accent. (2013) (76)
Dental-to-velar perceptual assimilation: a cross-linguistic study of the perception of dental stop+/l/ clusters. (2007) (73)
Cognitive processing deficits in reading disabilities: A prefrontal cortical hypothesis (1989) (69)
Left-Hemisphere Advantage for Click Consonants is Determined by Linguistic Significance and Experience (1999) (68)
Anomalous bimanual coordination among dyslexic boys. (1989) (68)
PHONETIC INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH AND FRENCH LISTENERS’ ASSIMILATION OF MANDARIN TONES TO NATIVE PROSODIC CATEGORIES (2014) (67)
Accommodation in mean f0 during mother–infant and father–infant vocal interactions: a longitudinal case study (1997) (60)
Stimulus-alternation preference procedure to test infant speech discrimination (1998) (59)
Perceptual assimilation of lexical tone: The roles of language experience and visual information (2014) (57)
Lexical retrieval in American Sign Language production (2006) (51)
Laboratory phonology 8 (2006) (49)
Discovering phonetic coherence in acoustic patterns (1989) (45)
Cross-language perception of nonnative vowels: Phonological and phonetic effects of listeners' native languages (2003) (44)
Effects of sign language experience on categorical perception of dynamic ASL pseudosigns (2010) (44)
Assimilation of non‐native vowel contrasts to the American English vowel system. (1996) (43)
Native-language phonetic and phonological influences on perception of American English approximants by Danish and German listeners (2012) (41)
Excrescent schwa and vowel laxing: Cross-linguistic: responses to conflicting articulatory targets (2006) (41)
Articulating What Infants Attune to in Native Speech (2016) (37)
An examination of the different ways that non-native phones may be perceptually assimilated as uncategorized. (2016) (36)
"Distinctive phones" in surface representation (2006) (31)
Second language learners' vocabulary expansion is associated with improved second language vowel intelligibility (2011) (31)
Hemispheric asymmetries in adults' perception of infant emotional expressions. (1994) (30)
Discrimination of uncategorised non-native vowel contrasts is modulated by perceived overlap with native phonological categories (2018) (30)
Modeling intonation in English: A probabilistic approach to phonological competence (2006) (28)
Categorizing Mandarin tones into listeners’ native prosodic categories: The role of phonetic properties (2010) (28)
Infant perceptual development for faces and spoken words: An integrated approach (2014) (27)
Perception of initial obstruent voicing is influenced by gestural organization (2010) (24)
The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC) (2010) (23)
Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent variation (2018) (22)
Adult perception of nonnative contrasts differing in assimilation to native phonological categories (1990) (22)
!Xóõ click perception by English, Isizulu, and Sesotho listeners (2003) (22)
Non-metallic ultrasound probe holder for co-collection and co-registration with EMA (2015) (22)
The development of language constancy: attention to native versus nonnative accents. (2013) (20)
On the scope of phonological learning: Issues arising from socially-structured variation (2006) (20)
Articulatory coordination of two vocal tracts (2014) (20)
Baby, It's in Your Smile: Right Hemiface Bias in Infant Emotional Expressions. (1989) (20)
Phonological priming in British Sign Language (2006) (20)
The Diversity of Tone Languages and the Roles of Pitch Variation in Non-tone Languages: Considerations for Tone Perception Research (2019) (19)
Vowel acoustics reliably differentiate three coronal stops of Wubuy across prosodic contexts (2012) (19)
The Perceptual Infrastructure of Early Phonological Development (1994) (18)
Visual Influences on Perception of Speech and Nonspeech Vocal-Tract Events (2006) (18)
Do English speakers assimilate Mandarin tones to English prosodic categories? (2008) (17)
Perceptual salience and palatalization in Russian (2006) (17)
Magnitude of phonetic distinction predicts success at early word learning in native and non-native accents (2014) (17)
Dynamics in grammar: Comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen (2006) (17)
Speech articulator movements recorded from facing talkers using two electromagnetic articulometer systems simultaneously (2010) (17)
Effects of language modality on word segmentation: An experimental study of phonological factors in a sign language (2006) (16)
A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus (2009) (16)
Focusing the lens of language experience: perception of Ma'di stops by Greek and English bilinguals and monolinguals. (2013) (16)
Perception of /dl/ and /tl/ clusters : a cross-linguistic perceptual study with French and Israeli listeners (2003) (14)
Native phonological and phonetic influences in perceptual assimilation of monosyllabic Thai lexical tones by Mandarin and Vietnamese listeners (2020) (14)
Investigating the role of articulatory organs and perceptual assimilation of native and non-native fricative place contrasts. (2014) (14)
Optimising refugee children’s health/wellbeing in preparation for primary and secondary school: a qualitative inquiry (2019) (13)
Devil or angel in the details? : perceiving phonetic variation as information about phonological structure (2015) (13)
Development of Phonological Constancy Perception of Native- and Jamaican-Accented (2009) (13)
Discovering Messages in the Medium (1984) (12)
DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC INFLUENCES ON SPEECH PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION IN PREVERBAL INFANCY (1999) (12)
Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and hiatus resolution in Greek (2006) (12)
Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account (2015) (12)
Temporal Dynamics of Lateral Channel Formation in /l/: 3D EMA Data from Australian English (2017) (12)
Null Subject vs. Null Object: Some Evidence from the Acquisition of Chinese and English* (2009) (12)
Early vs. late focus: Pitch-peak alignment in two dialects of Serbian and Croatian (2006) (12)
Perceiving through the Lens of Native Phonetics: Italian and Danish Listeners' Perception of English Consonant Contrasts (2011) (11)
Development of word recognition across speakers and accents (2013) (11)
Developmental change in tone perception in Mandarin monolingual, English monolingual, and Mandarin-English bilingual infants: Divergences between monolingual and bilingual learners. (2018) (10)
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi-Oi-Oi: Infants love an Australian accent (2006) (10)
Three-dimensional printable ultrasound transducer stabilization system. (2018) (10)
Recognizing words across regional accents: the role of perceptual assimilation in lexical competition (2013) (9)
Articulatory basis of the apical/laminal distinction : tongue tip/body coordination in the Wubuy 4-way coronal stop contrast (2014) (8)
Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/ (2021) (8)
Integrating coarticulation, assimilation, and blending into a model of articulatory constraints (2006) (8)
Native language effects on the perception of liquids (1980) (8)
Articulating the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM): Perceptual assimilation in relation to articulatory organs and their constriction gestures. (2009) (8)
Devil or angel in the details (2015) (8)
Consonantal timing and release burst acoustics distinguish multiple coronal stop place distinctions in Wubuy (Australia). (2016) (7)
Native‐language phonetic and phonological constraints on perception of non‐native speech contrasts (1999) (7)
Early and late bilinguals' vowel perception and production : English vowel contrasts that give Serbian-English bilinguals a H(E)AD-ache (2007) (7)
Phonological Influence on Infants' Perception of Two Nonnative Speech Contrasts. (1989) (7)
From newcastle MOUTH to aussie ears: australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for newcastle UK vowels (2015) (6)
Using the lens of phonetic experience to resolve phonological forms (2011) (6)
Phonetic implementation and phonetic pre-specification in sign language phonology (2006) (6)
Prosody first or prosody last? Evidence from the phonetics of word-final /t/ in American English (2006) (6)
Effects of non-native dialects on spoken word recognition (2007) (5)
L2 English learners' recognition of words spoken in familiar versus unfamiliar English accents (2013) (5)
Acoustic cue variability affects eye movement behaviour during non-native speech perception (2018) (5)
Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems (2015) (5)
Relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/ (2012) (5)
Articulatory modelling of coronal stop contrasts in Wubuy (2010) (5)
A Sound Approach to Language Matters (2019) (5)
Four‐year‐olds' perception of nonnative contrasts differing in phonological assimilation (1990) (5)
The effect of modality and speaking style on the discrimination of non-native phonological and phonetic contrasts in noise (2015) (5)
Effects of bilingualism on non‐native phonetic contrasts. (1996) (5)
Expectations in culturally unfamiliar music: influences of proximal and distal cues and timbral characteristics (2013) (5)
Multimodal speech animation from electromagnetic articulography data (2012) (4)
The assimilation of L2 australian English vowels to L1 Japanese vowel categories: vocabulary size matters (2008) (4)
Do infants detect a-v articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? (2011) (4)
A kinematic analysis of temporal differentiation of the four-way coronal stop contrast in Wubuy (Australia) (2010) (4)
Perception of / dl / and / tl / clusters : A study with French and I (2003) (4)
A cross-language study of categorical perception for semi-vowel and liquid glide contrasts (1982) (4)
Vocabulary size predicts the development of phonological constancy: An eyetracking study of word identification in a non-native dialect by 15- and 19-month-olds (2010) (4)
Testing PAM and SLM : perception of American English approximants by native German listeners (2010) (4)
Evidence of a near-merger in western sydney australian English vowels (2008) (4)
Acoustic cue variability affects eye movement behaviour during non-native speech perception: a GAMM model (2017) (3)
Peeling back the layers of time: integrating speech perception on the scales of stimulus time, experiential time, and developmental time (2003) (3)
Accent on language development : using dialects to trace how children come to recognise spoken words (2012) (3)
Differences in phonetic-to-lexical perceptual mapping of L1 and L2 regional accents (2017) (3)
Using deep neural networks to estimate tongue movements from speech face motion (2017) (3)
The influence of auditory-visual speech and clear speech on cross-language perceptual assimilation (2017) (3)
The perception of coronal stops in Wubuy (2012) (3)
Italian roots in Australian soil : coronal obstruents in native dialect speech of Italian-Australians from two areas of Veneto (2015) (3)
Cognitive Factors in Thai-Naïve Mandarin Speakers' Imitation of Thai Lexical Tones (2019) (3)
Affective attitudes towards Asians influence perception of Asian-accented vowels (2015) (3)
The Role of Acoustic Similarity and Non-Native Categorisation in Predicting Non-Native Discrimination: Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by English vs. Spanish Listeners (2021) (3)
Can a MAN be a MON? Toddlers spoken-word familiarity preferences in native versus nonnative dialects (2006) (3)
First language suprasegmentally-conditioned syllable length distinctions influence perception and production of second language vowel contrasts (2013) (3)
Dialect differences in vowel perception (1993) (2)
Non‐native speech perception as a window on the native phonological system and its development (1996) (2)
Effects of short-term exposure to unfamiliar regional accents: Australians’ categorization of London and Yorkshire English consonants (2014) (2)
Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy (2010) (2)
Intergroup Dynamics in Speech Perception: Interaction Among Experience, Attitudes and Expectations (2016) (2)
Exploring nonlinear relationships between speech face motion and tongue movements using Mutual Information (2014) (2)
Brain lateralization in 2‐, 3‐, and 4‐month olds for phonetic and musical timbre discriminations under memory load (1979) (2)
Phonetic details of coronal consonants in the Italian spoken by Italian-Australians from two areas of Veneto (2018) (2)
Non-native discrimination across speaking style, modality, and phonetic feature (2015) (2)
Distribution of tongue tip articulations in Hindi versus English and the acquisition of stop place categories (2008) (2)
Revealing the mother tongue’s nurturing effects on the infant ear (2002) (2)
The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of the past-tense formation (2006) (2)
Perception of American English glide consonants by Danish listeners (2002) (2)
Greek-Australian bilinguals match the VOTs of Greek and Australian English native speakers depending on language context (2008) (2)
Bilingual phonology in dichotic perception: A case study of Malayalam and English voicing (2020) (2)
I can see what you said: infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants (2010) (2)
Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners (2016) (2)
Coordination of tongue tip and body in place differences among English coronal obstruents (2014) (2)
Now you see it, now you don't - frequency distribution of articulatory information reflected in speech face motion (2012) (2)
Hemispheric differences in the perception of Zulu click consonants (1994) (2)
Phonologically motivated substitutions in a 20–22 month old's imitations of intervocalic alveolar stops (1988) (2)
Some current claims about sign language phonetics, phonology, and experimental results (2006) (2)
The statistical basis of an unnatural alternation (2006) (1)
Dialect differences in vowel production and perception (1994) (1)
A short-form version of the Australian English Communicative Development Inventory (2021) (1)
Perceptual evidence of modern Greek voiced stops as phonological categories (2008) (1)
Perceptual equivalence of cues for a phonetic trading relation: Primacy of phonetic over psychoacoustic effects (1979) (1)
Cognitive factors in perception of Thai tones by naïve Mandarin listeners (2019) (1)
Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability (2023) (1)
Influence of Phonological , Morphological , and Prosodic Factors on Phoneme Detection by Native and Second-Language Adults (2014) (1)
Perception of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin versus French listeners (2002) (1)
Phonologically Constrained Variability in L1 and L2 Production and Perception (2015) (1)
Flexibility in the face incompatible English VOT systems (2006) (1)
Discrimination of synthetic /la‐ra/ by birds (1991) (1)
Acoustics and Articulation of Medial versus Final Coronal Stop Gemination Contrasts in Moroccan Arabic (2017) (1)
! Xóõ click perception by English , Isi (2003) (1)
Phonological, phonetics and the nondominant hand (2006) (1)
Perception of Cantonese tones by Mandarin speakers (2015) (1)
THE PERCEPTION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH APPROXIMANTS BY FRENCH NATIVE SPEAKERS (1999) (1)
Tone Variations in Regionally Accented Mandarin (2020) (1)
Six- and twelve-month-olds' discrimination of native versus non-native between- and within-organ fricative place contrasts (2008) (1)
Super-imposing maxillary and palatal locations for electroarticulometry: A SIMPLE method. (2015) (1)
Predicting Potential Difficulties in Second Language Lexical Tone Learning with Support Vector Machine Models (2020) (1)
The Relationship Between Subthreshold Autistic Traits, Ambiguous Figure Perception and Divergent Thinking (2015) (1)
The perception of Mandarin tone contrasts: A cross‐linguistic study (2006) (1)
English and French speakers' perception of voicing distinctions in non-native lateral consonant syllable onsets (2007) (1)
Phonological and phonotactic influences on perception of two non‐native vowel contrasts (1995) (1)
English listeners perceptual assimilations for Zulu sounds: Evidence in support of the articulatory organ hypothesis (2006) (1)
Relating prosody and dynamic events: Comments on the papers by Cho and Smiljanić (2006) (1)
Getting the rhytm right: A cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words (2006) (1)
Speech perception in infants : propagating the effects of language experience (2017) (1)
The Influence of Modality and Speaking Style on the Assimilation Type and Categorization Consistency of Non-Native Speech (2016) (0)
Lexical effects on the perception of /l/ allophones in English (2012) (0)
Acoustic and ultrasound investigation of word-initial gemination in Moroccan Arabic (2018) (0)
Variation in developing phonologies: Comments on Vihman and colleagues, Docherty and colleagues, and Scobbie (2006) (0)
The Italian Roots in Australian Soil (IRIAS) multilingual speech corpus. Speech variation in two generations of Italo-Australians (2021) (0)
Hybrid perceptual training to facilitate the learning of nasal final contrasts by highly proficient Japanese learners of Mandarin (2019) (0)
Hearing through regional accent variation : The role of perceptual assimilation in L 1 and L 2 listening (2013) (0)
Native Beijing listeners’ perceptual assimilation of Mandarin lexical tones produced by L2-Mandarin speakers from Yantai, Shanghai, and Guangzhou (2022) (0)
L2 phonological category formation and discrimination in learners varying in L2 experience (2016) (0)
An articulatory study of coronal consonants in Arrernte (2006) (0)
Perception of English codas in various phonological and morphological contexts by Mandarin learners of English (2015) (0)
Chapter 1. The Peripatetic History of Middle English *ε† (2010) (0)
Improvements to vowel categorization in non-native regional accents resulting from multiple-versus single-talker training : A computational approach (2014) (0)
Tone differentiation as a means for assessing non-native imitation of Thai tones by Mandarin speakers (2020) (0)
Acoustic eigenmodes and formant‐cavity affiliations for the time‐varying vocal tract (2005) (0)
Production accuracy of English (I, i, Theta, E) by native speakers of Serbian (2005) (0)
The Italian Roots in Australian Soil (IRIAS) multilingual speech corpus. Speech variation in two generations of Italo-Australians (2021) (0)
Vocabulary size effects on phonological constancy in toddlers' cross-dialect word recognition (2009) (0)
Developmental Phonology: Is the Child the Parent to the Adult? (1986) (0)
A cross‐language study on perception of Taiwanese stops by non‐native listeners (2004) (0)
Perceptual assimilation of lexical tone: The roles of language experience and visual information (2014) (0)
Book Discussions: A Novel Format for Transporting Classic Works into Present-Day Phonetics Research (2017) (0)
Publications Received for Review (2009) (0)
The diachrony of labiality in Trique, and the functional relevance of gradience and variation (2006) (0)
The perceptual assimilation of Danish monophthongs and diphthongs by monolingual Australian English speakers (2015) (0)
Does a vowel by any other accent sound the same ... to toddler ears (2016) (0)
Cerebral asymetries for infants' facial emotions (1986) (0)
The development of perceptual attention and articulatory skill in one or two languages (2002) (0)
Theoretical models of non‐native speech perception: Implications for perception of foreign‐accented speech (2004) (0)
Variability in verbal agreement forms across four signed languages (2006) (0)
Increased second-language vocabulary size is associated with more consistent second-language vowel categorization and better discrimination. (2009) (0)
Welcome Editorial: Change and Continuity in Phonetica (2014) (0)
Exploring processability theory-based hypotheses in the second language acquisition of a child with autism spectrum disorder (2015) (0)
Cross‐modal perception of vowels, stops, and approximants using reduced‐formant stimuli (2005) (0)
Corrigendum: Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners (2016) (0)
Cross-language perception of nonna and phonetic effects of listene (2003) (0)
What do infants perceive in speech (1984) (0)
Mental Picture Inversion: Left-Right Confusion and Mirror-Imaging in Children and Adults. (1975) (0)
Infant and adult ear asymmetry differences for memory‐based consonant versus vowel discriminations (1979) (0)
Message vs. messenger effects on cross-modal matching for spoken phrases (2015) (0)
SVM-based evaluation of Thai tone imitations by Thai-naïve Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers (2021) (0)
Perceptual effects of attention to phonetic versus “musical” properties of sinewave speech (1988) (0)
The peripatetic history of Middle English */E/ (2010) (0)
Regionally accented Mandarin lexical tones (2020) (0)
Experiential effects in speech perception: Do they arise from a level playing field? (2019) (0)
AN INFORMATION THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE ON PERCEPTUAL STRUCTURE: CROSS-ACCENT VOWEL PERCEPTION (2019) (0)
Syllable position effects and gestural organization: Articulatory evidence from Russia (2006) (0)
Expectations of Culturally Unfamiliar Music Measure (2018) (0)
The relation between dialect attribution and vowel judgments (1995) (0)
Uluzuzulalia : a performance and playground of the voice for children and their adults (2015) (0)

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