Title | Increase in speech recognition due to linguistic mismatch between target and masker speech: monolingual and simultaneous bilingual performance. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Calandruccio, Lauren, and Haibo Zhou |
Journal | J Speech Lang Hear Res |
Volume | 57 |
Issue | 3 |
Pagination | 1089-97 |
Date Published | 2014 Jun 01 |
ISSN | 1558-9102 |
Keywords | Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Female, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Male, Models, Theoretical, Multilingualism, Noise, Perceptual Masking, Phonetics, Recognition, Psychology, Speech, Speech Perception, Young Adult |
Abstract | PURPOSE: To examine whether improved speech recognition during linguistically mismatched target-masker experiments is due to linguistic unfamiliarity of the masker speech or linguistic dissimilarity between the target and masker speech.METHOD: Monolingual English speakers (n = 20) and English-Greek simultaneous bilinguals (n = 20) listened to English sentences in the presence of competing English and Greek speech. Data were analyzed using mixed-effects regression models to determine differences in English recogition performance between the 2 groups and 2 masker conditions.RESULTS: Results indicated that English sentence recognition for monolinguals and simultaneous English-Greek bilinguals improved when the masker speech changed from competing English to competing Greek speech.CONCLUSION: The improvement in speech recognition that has been observed for linguistically mismatched target-masker experiments cannot be simply explained by the masker language being linguistically unknown or unfamiliar to the listeners. Listeners can improve their speech recognition in linguistically mismatched target-masker experiments even when the listener is able to obtain meaningful linguistic information from the masker speech. |
DOI | 10.1044/2013_JSLHR-H-12-0378 |
Alternate Journal | J Speech Lang Hear Res |
Original Publication | Increase in speech recognition due to linguistic mismatch between target and masker speech: monolingual and simultaneous bilingual performance. |
PubMed ID | 24167230 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4043956 |
Grant List | R01ES021900 / ES / NIEHS NIH HHS / United States P01CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States P01 CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States R01 ES021900 / ES / NIEHS NIH HHS / United States UL1RR025747 / RR / NCRR NIH HHS / United States UL1 RR025747 / RR / NCRR NIH HHS / United States |
Increase in speech recognition due to linguistic mismatch between target and masker speech: monolingual and simultaneous bilingual performance.
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