Data from repeated measures experiments are usually analyzed with conventional ANOVA.
Three well-known problems with ANOVA are the sphericity assumption, the design effect (…

Psycholinguistic data are often analyzed with repeated-measures analyses of variance (ANOVA),
but this paper argues that mixed-effects (multilevel) models provide a better alternative …

The oral fluency level of an L2 speaker is often used as a measure in assessing language
proficiency. The present study reports on four experiments investigating the contributions of …

Speech tempo (articulation rate) varies both between and within speakers. The present
study investigates several factors affecting tempo in a corpus of spoken Dutch, consisting of …

Speakers vary their speech tempo (speaking rate), and such variations in tempo are quite
noticeable. But what is the just noticeable difference (JND) for tempo in speech? The present …

Certain types of speech, eg lists of words or numbers, are usually spoken with highly regular
inter-stress timing. The main hypothesis of this study (derived from the Dynamic Attending …

Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing
practices, both fluency and accent are usually assessed by raters. This study investigates …

Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to
strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses, fillers…

The present investigation carried out acoustic analyses of vowels in clear and conversational
speech produced by 41 talkers. Mixed-effects models were then deployed to examine …

Speech comprehension involves extensive use of prediction. Linguistic prediction may be
guided by the semantics or syntax, but also by the performance characteristics of the speech …