Recent Publications

Selected peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and proceedings from the MSU Speech Lab. Links resolve to the publisher or DOI where available.

• Pittman-Polletta, B. & Dilley, L. (2026). Adaptive pacing in word segmentation and the Vowel-onset Paced Syllable Inference model. Ch. 12 in Meyer, L. & Strauss, A. (eds.), Rhythms of Speech and Language: Physiology, Cognition, Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13: 9781009295857
• Reuter, M., Philippone, M., Benton, B. & Dilley, L. C. (2025). Generative AI in clinical practice: Novel qualitative evidence of risk and responsible use of Google’s NotebookLM. Eye, 39, 1650-1652. doi: 10.1038/s41433-025-03817-y
• Moutoussis, M., Barnby, J., Durand, A., Croal, M., Dilley, L., Rutledge, R., & Mason, L. (2024). Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), nsae078. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsae078
• Nayereh, J., Modarresi, G. & Dilley, L. (2024). An overview of tonal tagging systems: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) vs. RaP (Rhythm and Pitch). Journal of Language Research (Iran). doi: 10.22051/jlr.2023.44161.2304
• Garnett, E. O., McAuley, J. D., Wieland, E. G., Chow, H. M., Zhu, D., Dilley, L., & Chang, S.-E. (2023). Auditory rhythm discrimination in adults who stutter: An fMRI study. Brain and Language, 23, 105219. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105219
• Kokorikou, D., Fiore, V., Sarigiannidis, I., Parkin, B., Hopkins, A., El-Deredy, W., Dilley, L., & Moutoussis, M. (2023). Testing hypotheses about the harm that capitalism causes to the mind and brain: a theoretical framework for neuroscience research. Frontiers in Sociology, 8, 1030115. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1030115
• Dilley, L., Welna, W., & Foster, F. (2021/2022). QAnon propaganda on Twitter as information warfare: Influencers, networks, and narratives. Accepted Sept. 16, 2021 at Frontiers in Communication, 6:707595, doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.707595 [Archived Oct. 23, 2021 at https://web.archive.org/web/20211023213819/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.707595/abstract].
• Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (2022). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation: A reply to Jun. In Prosodic Theory and Practice (pp. 182-203), J. Barnes and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262543170
• Kallay, J., Dilley, L., & Redford, M. (2022). Prosodic development during the early school-aged years. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(11), 4025-4046. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00124
• Arjmandi, M. K., Houston, D., & Dilley, L. (2022). Variability in quantity and quality of early linguistic experience in children with cochlear implants: Evidence from analysis of natural auditory environments. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 685-698. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001136
• Wang, Y.-Y., Cooke, M., Reed, J., Dilley, L., & Houston, D. (2022). Home auditory environments of children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 592-604. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001124
• McQueen, J. M. & Dilley, L. (2021). Prosody and spoken-word recognition. In The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody (Ch. 36, pp. 509-521), C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198832232
• Arjmandi, M. K., Houston, D., Wang, Y., & Dilley, L. (2021). Estimating the reduced benefit of infant-directed speech in cochlear implant-related speech processing. Neuroscience Research, 171, 49-61. doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2021.01.007
• Brown, M., Tanenhaus, M., & Dilley, L. (2021). Syllable inference as a mechanism for spoken language understanding. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1-48. doi: 10.1111/tops.12529
• Lehet, M., Arjmandi, M. K., Houston, D., & Dilley, L. (2021). Circumspection in using automated measures: Talker gender and addressee affect error rates for adult speech detection in the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system. Behavior Research Methods, 53(1), 113-138. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01419-y
• Wang, Y.-Y., Williams, R., Dilley, L., & Houston, D. (2020). A meta-analysis of the predictability of LENA automated measures for child language development. Developmental Review, 57, 100921. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2020.100921
• Dilley, L., Lehet, M., Wieland, E., Arjmandi, M. K., Kondaurova, M., Wang, Y., Reed, J., Svirsky, M., Bergeson, T., & Houston, D. (2020). Quality and quantity of maternal speech predicts speech-language clinical outcomes in deaf infants receiving cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63, 2453-2467. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00229
• Dilley, L., Gamache, J., Wang, Y., Houston, D. M., & Bergeson, T. (2019). Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech: /t/ may be exceptional. Journal of Phonetics, 75, 73-87.
• Baese-Berk, M., Dilley, L., Henry, M., Vinke, L. & Banzina, E. (2019). Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate affects perception of prosodically weak syllables. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81, 571-589. doi: 10.3758/s13414-018-1626-4
• Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L., and Wagner, S. (2018). Investigation of acoustic dimension use in dialect production: Machine learning of sonorant sounds for modeling acoustic cues of African American Dialect. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, East Lansing, MI.
• Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L. & Lehet, M. (2018). A comprehensive framework for F0 estimation and sampling in modelling prosodic variation in infant-directed speech. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language, Berlin, Germany, June 18-20, 2018.
• Baese-Berk, M., Morrill, T. & Dilley, L. (2018). Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(S2). doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2017-0022
• Baese-Berk, M., Dilley, L., Schmidt, S., Morrill, T., & Pitt, M. (2016). Revisiting Neil Armstrong’s moon-landing quote: Implications for speech perception, function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity. PLoS One, 11(9), e0155975. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155975
• Banzina, E., Dilley, L., & Hewitt, L. (2016). The role of secondary stressed and unstressed unreduced syllables in word recognition: acoustic and perceptual studies with Russian learners of English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(4), 813-831. doi: 10.1007/s10936-015-9377-z
• Pitt, M., Szostak, C., & Dilley, L. (2016). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech-specific: Evidence from the perceptual disappearance of words under changes in context speech rate. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 334-345. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0981
• Morrill, T., Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C., & Dilley, L. (2015). Interactions between distal speech rate, linguistic knowledge, and speech environment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1451-1457. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0820-9
• Wieland, E., Burnham, E., Kondaurova, M., Bergeson, T., & Dilley, L. (2015). Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 254-257. doi: 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-S-13-0250