When Jack isn't Jacques: Simultaneous opposite language-specific speech perceptual learning in French-English bilinguals.

Humans are remarkably good at understanding spoken language, despite the huge variability of the signal as a function of the talker, the situation, and the environment. This success relies on having access to stable representations based on years of speech input, coupled with the ability to adapt to short-term deviations from these norms, e.g.