Similarity and familiarity: Second language sentence recognition in first- and second-language multi-talker babble

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 943-953

  Van Engen, Kristin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual speech perception; Informational masking; Multi talker babble; Speech in noise perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE FACTORS; ENGLISH SENTENCES; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH TARGETS;

AUDITION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 78649317674     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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