Speaker effects in language comprehension: An integrative model of language and speaker processing

ArXi:2412.07238v2 Announce Type: replace The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and proposes an integrative model of language and speaker processing that integrates distinct mechanistic perspectives. We argue that speaker effects arise from the interplay between bottom-up perception-based processes, driven by acoustic-episodic memory, and top-down expectation-based processes, driven by a speaker model.