With one in five people in the U.S. speaking a language other than English when they are at home, Tessa Bent’s research into how children perceive so many different varieties of foreign-accented English has never been more timely.

How children develop the ability to accurately understand the speech of talkers who can sound very different from one another, and radically different from the child’s own speech, is what one researcher will investigate with the $356,000 in funding provided by the National Institutes of Health. Most specifically, grant recipients want to explore variability introduced by differences in the native language backgrounds of the talkers.

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