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Overview

Ann R. Bradlow is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on the intersection of computer science and psychology, with significant contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology as well as artificial intelligence and signal processing.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as:

  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Bradlow's frequent co-authors include Matthew Goldrick, Pamela E. Souza, Seung-Eun Kim, Abhijit Sinha Roy, and Catherine T. Best, highlighting collaborations across related research areas.

Research outputs have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Phonetica
  • JASA Express Letters
  • Languages
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition

Notable recent publications comprise a range of studies addressing speech perception, intelligibility, and bilingualism. Selected papers include:

  • "Generalized perceptual adaptation to second-language speech: Variability, similarity, and intelligibility" (2023) published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Automatic recognition of second language speech-in-noise" (2024) appearing in JASA Express Letters
  • "Early versus Extended Exposure in Speech Perception Learning: Evidence from Switched-Dominance Bilinguals" (2020) featured in Languages
  • "Recognition of foreign-accented speech in noise: The interplay between talker intelligibility and linguistic structure" (2020) published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Information encoding and transmission profiles of first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) speech" (2021) appearing in Bilingualism Language and Cognition

Their academic focus integrates cognitive neuroscience and linguistics with practical applications in speech and hearing research. This includes analyzing speech recognition in complex auditory environments, bilingual speech processing, and the impact of linguistic structures on intelligibility.

Best Publications

  • Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: IV. Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production.

    Ann R. Bradlow;David B. Pisoni;Reiko Akahane-Yamada;Yoh’ichi Tohkura

  • Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech.

    Ann R. Bradlow;Tessa Bent

  • Speech recognition in adverse conditions: A review

    Sven L. Mattys;Matthew H. Davis;Ann R. Bradlow;Sophie K. Scott

  • Intelligibility of normal speech I: global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics

    Ann R. Bradlow;Gina M. Torretta;David B. Pisoni

  • The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit.

    Tessa Bent;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/and /l/: Long-term retention of learning in perception and production

    Ann R. Bradlow;Reiko Akahane-Yamada;David B. Pisoni;Yoh’ichi Tohkura

  • Speaking clearly for children with learning disabilities: sentence perception in noise.

    Ann R. Bradlow;Nina Kraus;Erin Hayes

  • Recognition of spoken words by native and non-native listeners: Talker-, listener-, and item-related factors

    Ann R. Bradlow;David B. Pisoni

  • The clear speech effect for non-native listeners

    Ann R. Bradlow;Tessa Bent

  • A comparative acoustic study of English and Spanish vowels

    Ann R. Bradlow

  • Neurobiologic responses to speech in noise in children with learning problems: deficits and strategies for improvement

    Jenna Cunningham;Trent Nicol;Steven G Zecker;Ann R Bradlow

  • Speaking and Hearing Clearly: Talker and Listener Factors in Speaking Style Changes

    Rajka Smiljanić;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Semantic and phonetic enhancements for speech-in-noise recognition by native and non-native listeners

    Ann R. Bradlow;Jennifer A. Alexander

  • Production and perception of clear speech in Croatian and English.

    Rajka Smiljanić;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise

    Kristin J. Van Engen;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Effects of talker, rate, and amplitude variation on recognition memory for spoken words.

    Ann R. Bradlow;Lynne C. Nygaard;David B. Pisoni

  • Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance

    Midam Kim;William S. Horton;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech

    Melissa M. Baese-Berk;Ann R. Bradlow;Beverly A. Wright

  • Consequences of neural asynchrony: a case of auditory neuropathy.

    N. Kraus;A.R. Bradlow;M.A. Cheatham;J. Cunningham

  • Deficient Brainstem Encoding of Pitch in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    N.M. Russo;E. Skoe;B. Trommer;T. Nicol

  • The Wildcat Corpus of Native- and Foreign-Accented English: Communicative Efficiency across Conversational Dyads with Varying Language Alignment Profiles

    Kristin J. Van Engen;Melissa Baese-Berk;Rachel E. Baker;Arim Choi

  • The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production (L)

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Tessa Bent;Benjamin Munson;Ann R. Bradlow

  • The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for native speakers of Mandarin: Production and perception of English word-final voicing contrasts

    Rachel Hayes-Harb;Bruce L. Smith;Tessa Bent;Ann R. Bradlow

  • The influence of linguistic experience on the cognitive processing of pitch in speech and nonspeech sounds.

    Tessa Bent;Ann R. Bradlow;Beverly A. Wright

  • Variability in word duration as a function of probability, speech style, and prosody.

    Rachel E. Baker;Ann R. Bradlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Kraus
Nina Kraus Northwestern University
David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Trent Nicol
Trent Nicol Northwestern University
Steven G. Zecker
Steven G. Zecker Northwestern University
Patrick C. M. Wong
Patrick C. M. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Erika Skoe
Erika Skoe University of Connecticut
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London

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