This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.075) provides $160,000 over a 2-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports an early career postdoctoral researcher to investigate the mechanisms underlying perceptual learning and adaptation to accented speech. The research aims to shed light on how listeners can successfully adapt to the diversity of speech contexts encountered in the real world, rather than expecting all speakers to sound the same. The study will use artificial accent learning tools to investigate listener strategies for adapting to accented speech, with the goal of informing approaches to help normalize speech variability and benefit listeners from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
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