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  1. Intelligibility of Unfamiliar Accents in Quiet and Noise Develops Into Adolescence

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Rachael Holt, Malachi Henry, Tessa Bent

  2. Audiovisual Speech Perception With Less Familiar and Frequent Words

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, November 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Tessa Bent

  3. Shhh… I Need Quiet! Children’s Understanding of American, British, and Japanese-accented English Speakers

    Article • Language and Speech, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Tessa Bent

  4. Children's Use of Semantic Context in Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Rachael Holt, Tessa Bent

  5. Individual differences in the perception of regional, nonnative, and disordered speech varieties

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Tessa Bent

  6. Perception of Nonnative-accented Sentences by 5- to 8-Year-olds and Adults: The Role of Phonological Processing Skills

    Article • Language and Speech, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Tessa Bent

  7. Children's perception of nonnative-accented sentences in noise and quiet

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Tessa Bent

  8. Auditory free classification of native and nonnative speech by nonnative listeners

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Tessa Bent

  9. Children's perception of foreign-accented words

    Article • Journal of Child Language, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Tessa Bent