Arthur Samuel

About

Arthur Samuel is a researcher whose work focuses on speech perception, auditory processing, and psycholinguistics. His research explores how listeners perceive, process, and recognize spoken language, including the effects of dialect, accent, lexical tones, and phonemic variation. He investigates the cognitive and perceptual mechanisms underlying speech recognition, including the influence of social and contextual factors, as well as the neural processes involved in auditory and linguistic processing. Throughout his career, Samuel has contributed to understanding the role of knowledge-based expectations in music perception, the use of rhythm in speech attention, and the perceptual adjustments listeners make to speaker variability. His work also examines how visual cues, such as lip reading, interact with auditory information, and how speech perception is affected by factors like ethnicity, musicianship, and language experience. Samuel's research has implications for models of spoken word recognition, language learning, and social communication, and he has published extensively on these topics, advancing the scientific understanding of auditory and linguistic cognition.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing
• Cognitive psychology
• Linguistics
• Developmental psychology
• Speech recognition
• Communication

Selected publications

• The relationship of speech perception and speech production: It’s complicated

  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2024-09-03 · 20 citations

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• Semantic priming effects can be modulated by crosslinguistic interactions during second-language auditory word recognition

  Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2020 · 12 citations

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  Abstract The current study investigates how second language auditory word recognition, in early and highly proficient Spanish–Basque (L1-L2) bilinguals, is influenced by crosslinguistic phonological-lexical interactions and semantic priming. Phonological overlap between a word and its translation equivalent (phonological cognate status), and semantic relatedness of a preceding prime were manipulated. Experiment 1 examined word recognition performance in noisy listening conditions that introduce…

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• Language-Specific or Universal? The Nature and Roles of Consistency and Gradiency in Speech Perception

  2024-07-09 · 3 citations

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  Speech perception gradiency allows listeners to detect and maintain subphonemic information, thereby enhancing speech perception flexibility. However, its nature is not fully understood; it is unclear whether gradiency is a generic trait, or if it depends on language status (L1 vs. L2) and/or language-specific properties (e.g., voice onset time). To address these questions, we investigated the functions of gradiency in spoken word recognition by Spanish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals. In addition,…

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• Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language

  Language Learning · 2024-05-06 · 3 citations

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  Abstract Some listeners exhibit higher sensitivity to subphonemic acoustic differences (i.e., higher speech gradiency). Here, we asked whether higher gradiency in a listener's first language (L1) facilitates foreign language learning and explored the possible sources of individual differences in L1 gradiency. To address these questions, we tested 164 native Spanish speakers with different linguistic profiles. Speech gradiency was assessed via a Visual Analogue Scale task, and foreign language pr…

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• Processing and production of clitics in Udi and European Portuguese: Testing a processing account of an extension of the suffixing preference

  Journal of Linguistics · 2024-05-16 · 3 citations

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  Abstract In our paper testing the Cutler–Hawkins hypothesis that suffixes are easier to process than prefixes (Harris & Samuel 2025), we report little experimental support for the hypothesis. Several sources treat clitics as being similar to affixes (e.g. Himmelmann 2014, Asao 2015), and some argue that there is a parallel preference for enclitics over proclitics (Cysouw 2005, Dryer 2017). On this basis, we test an extension of the Cutler–Hawkins hypothesis to clitics because if true, that t…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01MH051663

  NIH · $2.5M · 2010

• NIH Grant R01HD059787

  NIH · $757k · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Saioa Larraza

  University of the Basque Country

  60 shared

• Martijn Baart

  Tilburg University

  31 shared

• Efthymia C. Kapnoula

  Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

  28 shared

• Mikhail Ordin

  26 shared

• Tanya Kraljic

  Google (United States)

  21 shared

• Donna Kat

  Stony Brook University

  19 shared

• Tiphaine Caudrelier

  Université Lumière Lyon 2

  18 shared

• Clara D. Martin

  Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

  18 shared

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