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Tessa Bent

Psychology · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Phonetics and Phonology ResearchLinguistic Variation and MorphologySpeech and Audio ProcessingHearing Loss and RehabilitationSpeech Recognition and Synthesis

Publications

148

Citations

3,694

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

25

Publishing since 2001

Research summary
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Tessa Bent studies how people perceive and understand spoken language, including how listeners recognize speech in noisy settings, how they respond to different accents and voice qualities, and how children and adults perceive speech that varies from typical patterns. Much of the work uses careful listening experiments to measure speech intelligibility, listening effort, and how social characteristics of talkers are perceived from their voices.

Speech perception and intelligibilityAccent and pronunciation variationListening in noise (e.g., hospital and traffic settings)Perception of disordered speech in childrenVoice quality and talker identity perception

Publication activity has been steady across the decade, generally around 6-10 papers per year, with a recent uptick in 2025.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.2/year recently
2017: 9 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 8 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 10 publications212022: 8 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 9 publications242025: 13 publications132526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America×48
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research×5
  • Language and Speech×2
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics×2
  • Journal of Phonetics×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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