Northern English

Accent comprehension and accent bias in a first and second language.

Processing regional accent variation: Real-time and reaction time measures.

Using eye-tracking to investigate the role of regional variation in spoken word recognition.

The effect of regional variation on speech processing: evidence from an eye-tracking experiment.

Previous research in sociophonetics has shown that perceived information about the speaker affects low-level speech perception (e.g., Strand, 1999) and lexical access (e.g., Koops et al., 2008). These experiments often use pictures or words to cue a …