Tessa Bent

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Tessa Bent is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tessa Bent has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 25 papers in Linguistics and Language and 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tessa Bent's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (55 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (19 papers). Tessa Bent is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (55 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (19 papers). Tessa Bent collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and New Zealand. Tessa Bent's co-authors include Ann R. Bradlow, Rachael Frush Holt, Bruce L. Smith, Melissa M. Baese‐Berk, Beverly A. Wright, Stephanie A. Borrie, David B. Pisoni, Rachel Hayes‐Harb, Jennifer Hay and Kristin J. Van Engen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Tessa Bent

63 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech
    2007 541 citations Ann R. Bradlow, Tessa Bent Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tessa Bent United States 21 1.6k 850 794 508 483 68 2.2k
Cynthia G. Clopper United States 23 1.5k 0.9× 372 0.4× 1.2k 1.6× 281 0.6× 274 0.6× 92 2.0k
Melissa M. Baese‐Berk United States 19 922 0.6× 567 0.7× 452 0.6× 190 0.4× 333 0.7× 76 1.3k
S.G. Nooteboom Netherlands 18 932 0.6× 685 0.8× 283 0.4× 276 0.5× 323 0.7× 53 1.5k
Joan A. Sereno United States 27 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.3× 679 0.9× 285 0.6× 980 2.0× 88 2.4k
Stefanie Shattuck‐Hufnagel United States 26 3.0k 1.8× 908 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 290 0.6× 1.0k 2.1× 144 3.8k
Scott E. Lively United States 10 1.3k 0.8× 565 0.7× 454 0.6× 294 0.6× 525 1.1× 14 1.6k
Delphine Dahan United States 19 1.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.9× 393 0.5× 183 0.4× 1.2k 2.6× 30 2.8k
Laura C. Dilley United States 26 1.3k 0.8× 772 0.9× 476 0.6× 157 0.3× 614 1.3× 83 1.8k
Alice Turk United Kingdom 23 2.2k 1.3× 694 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 197 0.4× 803 1.7× 64 2.8k
Holger Mitterer Netherlands 31 2.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 877 1.1× 238 0.5× 896 1.9× 98 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tessa Bent

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tessa Bent

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2025). Let's Be Friends: Peer Perceptions of Disordered Speech in Preschool and Early School-Aged Children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 35(1). 127–149.
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2024). Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents. Journal of Phonetics. 107. 101357–101357. 1 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2024). Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 79–79.
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2024). Auditory free classification of gender diverse speakers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 155(2). 1422–1436. 4 indexed citations
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Francis, Alexander L., et al.. (2021). Listener characteristics differentially affect self-reported and physiological measures of effort associated with two challenging listening conditions. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 83(4). 1818–1841. 25 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2020). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teaching Assistants in Active Learning Classrooms.. 9(2). 103–118. 3 indexed citations
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McLaughlin, Drew Jordan, Melissa M. Baese‐Berk, Tessa Bent, Stephanie A. Borrie, & Kristin J. Van Engen. (2018). Coping with adversity: Individual differences in the perception of noisy and accented speech. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 80(6). 1559–1570. 54 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa. (2018). Development of unfamiliar accent comprehension continues through adolescence. Journal of Child Language. 45(6). 1400–1411. 13 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2017). Nonnative Accent Discrimination with Words and Sentences. Phonetica. 74(3). 173–191. 8 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2016). Classification of regional dialects, international dialects, and nonnative accents. Journal of Phonetics. 58. 104–117. 32 indexed citations
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Baese‐Berk, Melissa M., et al.. (2015). Individual differences in perception of unfamiliar speech.. ICPhS. 4 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa. (2015). Development of perceptual flexibility.. ICPhS. 2 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2014). Relationship between listeners' nonnative speech recognition and categorization abilities. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137(1). EL44–EL50. 16 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa. (2014). Children's perception of foreign-accented words. Journal of Child Language. 41(6). 1334–1355. 46 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2013). Auditory free classification of nonnative speech. Journal of Phonetics. 41(6). 509–519. 33 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2011). Perceptual Dimensions of Nonnative Speech.. ICPhS. 260–263. 5 indexed citations
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Bent, Tessa, et al.. (2011). Perceptual adaptation to sinewave-vocoded speech across languages.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 37(5). 1607–1616. 14 indexed citations
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Hayes‐Harb, Rachel, Bruce L. Smith, Tessa Bent, & Ann R. Bradlow. (2008). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for native speakers of Mandarin: Production and perception of English word-final voicing contrasts. Journal of Phonetics. 36(4). 664–679. 100 indexed citations
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Bradlow, Ann R. & Tessa Bent. (2007). Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition. 106(2). 707–729. 541 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bent, Tessa, Ann R. Bradlow, & Beverly A. Wright. (2006). The influence of linguistic experience on the cognitive processing of pitch in speech and nonspeech sounds.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 32(1). 97–103. 109 indexed citations

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