Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Phonetic categories and phonological features: Evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language -- On invariance: Acoustic input meets listener expectations -- The invariance problem in the acquisition of non-native phonetic contrasts: From instances to categories -- Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for underspecification in the mental lexicon -- Talker-specificity effects in spoken language processing: Now you see them, now you don't -- Processing acoustic variability in lexical tone perception -- Flexible and adaptive processes in speech perception -- Foreign accent syndrome: Phonology or phonetics? -- How category learning occurs in adults and children -- Automatic speech recognition: What phonology can offer -- Fluid semantics: Semantic knowledge is experience-based and dynamic -- Subject index