This study investigated how native language background influences the intelligibility of speech by non-native talkers for listeners from either same or a different as talker. Native Chinese (n=2), Korean and English (n=1) were recorded reading simple sentences. (n=21), (n=10), mixed group various backgrounds (n=12) then performed sentence recognition task with recordings five talkers. Results showed that listeners, talker was most intelligible. However, relatively high proficiency...

Previous work has established that naturally produced clear speech is more intelligible than conversational for adult hearing-impaired listeners and normal-hearing under degraded listening conditions. The major goal of the present study was to investigate extent which an effective intelligibility enhancement strategy non-native listeners. Thirty-two 32 native were presented with English sentences. Factors varied speaking style (conversational versus clear), signal-to-noise ratio (-4 -8 dB)...

Speech perception abilities vary substantially across listeners, particularly in adverse conditions including those stemming from environmental degradation (e.g., noise) or talker-related challenges nonnative disordered speech). This study examined adult listeners' recognition of words phrases produced by six talkers representing three speech varieties: a accent (Spanish-accented English), regional dialect (Irish and variety (ataxic dysarthria). Semantically anomalous these were presented...

ABSTRACT The acoustic-phonetic realizations of words can vary dramatically depending on a variety within- and across-talker characteristics such as regional dialect, native language, age, gender. Robust word learning requires that children are able to recognize amidst this substantial variability. In the current study, perception foreign-accented was assessed in four- seven-year-old test how one form variability influences recognition children. Results demonstrated had less accurate than...

In the present experiment, authors tested Mandarin and English listeners on a range of auditory tasks to investigate whether long-term linguistic experience influences cognitive processing nonspeech sounds. As expected, identified tones significantly more accurately than listeners; however, performance did not differ across listener groups pitch discrimination task requiring fine-grained simple The crucial finding was that cross-language differences emerged contour identification task: often...

Adult listeners' word recognition is remarkably robust under a variety of adverse listening conditions. However, the combination two simultaneous challenges (e.g., nonnative speaker in noise) can cause significant decrements. This study investigated how talker-related (native vs nonnative) and environment-related (noise quiet) conditions impact children's adults' recognition. Five- six-year-old children adults identified sentences produced by one native talker both quiet noise-added...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate children's use semantic context facilitate foreign-accented word recognition in noise. Method Monolingual American English speaking 5- 7-year-olds ( n = 168) repeated either Mandarin- or English–accented sentences babble, half which contained final words that were highly predictable from context. same presented the low- and high-predictability sentences. Results Word scores better high- than low-predictability contexts. Scores improved with...

In pairs of names, male names often precede female (e.g. Romeo and Juliet). We investigate this bias argue that preferences for name ordering are constrained by a combination gender, phonology, frequency. First, various phonological constraints condition the optimal binomial pairs, findings from our corpus investigations show contain those features which lend them to be preferred in first position, while second position. Thus, phonology predicts more likely than follow them. Results...

In spoken word identification and memory tasks, stimulus variability from numerous sources impairs performance. the current study, influence of foreign-accent on was evaluated in two experiments. Experiment 1 used a between-subjects design to test noise single-talker multiple-talker conditions: multiple talkers with same accent different accents. Identification performance highest condition, but there no difference between single-accent multiple-accent conditions. 2 further explored...

Children’s ability to understand speakers with a wide range of dialects and accents is essential for efficient language development communication in global society. Here, the impact regional dialect foreign-accent variability on children’s speech understanding was evaluated both quiet noisy conditions. Five- seven-year-old children ( n = 90) adults 96) repeated sentences produced by three different accents—American English, British Japanese-accented English—in or Adults had no difficulty any...

Auditory attribution of speaker gender has historically been assumed to operate within a binary framework. The prevalence diversity and its associated sociophonetic variability motivates an examination how listeners perceptually represent these diverse voices. Utterances from 30 transgender (1 agender individual, 15 non-binary individuals, 7 men, women) cisgender (15 men speakers were used in auditory free classification paradigm, which classified the on perceived general similarity...

The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from Journal of the Acoustical Society America that have had significant impact science and practice acoustics.

There is substantial individual variability in understanding speech adverse listening conditions. This study examined whether a relationship exists between processing noise (environmental degradation) and dysarthric (source degradation), with regard to intelligibility performance the use of metrical stress segment degraded signals. Ninety native speakers American English transcribed speech. For each type adversity, transcriptions were analyzed for proportion words correct lexical...

Abstract Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech adverse conditions. Differences both cognitive and linguistic capacities play a role, but increasing evidence suggests that such factors may contribute differentially depending on the listening challenge. Here, we used multilevel modeling evaluate contributions of individual differences age, hearing thresholds, vocabulary, selective attention, working memory capacity, personality traits, noise sensitivity variability measures...

A listener’s ability to utilize indexical information in the speech signal can enhance their performance on a variety of perception tasks. It is unclear, however, whether such plays similar role for spectrally reduced signals, as those experienced by individuals with cochlear implants. The present study compared effects training linguistic and tasks when adapting implant simulations. Listening sentences processed an eight-channel sinewave vocoder, three separate groups subjects were trained...

Talker intelligibility and perceptual adaptation under cochlear implant (CI)-simulation speech in multi-talker babble were compared. The stimuli consisted of 100 sentences produced by 20 native English talkers. processed to simulate listening with an eight-channel CI or mixed babble. Stimuli presented 400 listeners a sentence transcription task (200 each condition). Perceptual was measured for talker comparing the first experiment last sentences. patterns also compared across two degradation...

Abstract Two experiments examined production and perception of English temporal patterns by native non-native participants. Experiment 1 indicated that (L1 = Chinese) talkers differed significantly in their one duration pattern (i.e., vowel lengthening before voiced versus voice-less consonants) but not another tense lax vowels). 2 tested listener identification words voicing the final consonant whose productions were substantially different experiment 1. Results differences intelligibility...

To acquire language and successfully communicate in multicultural multilingual societies, children must learn to understand speakers with various accents dialects. This study investigated adults' 5- 8-year-old children's perception of native- nonnative-accented English sentences noise. Participants' phonological memory awareness were assessed investigate factors associated individual differences word recognition. Although both adults performed less accurately nonnative talkers than native...

Examinations of speaker gender perception have primarily focused on the roles fundamental frequency (fo) and formant frequencies from structured speech tasks using cisgender speakers. Yet, there is evidence to suggest that fo formants do not fully account for listeners’ perceptual judgements gender, particularly connected speech. This study investigated importance fo, frequencies, articulation, intonation in identity masculinity/femininity spontaneous male female speakers as well...