Effects of energetic and informational masking on speech segmentation by native and non-native speakers

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 887-899

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Carroll, Lucy M ^a   Li, Carrie K W ^a   Chan, Sonia L Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive load; Energetic masking; Informational masking; Processing load; Speech segmentation; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; COGNITIVE LOAD; ENERGETIC MASKING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; PROCESSING LOAD; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649318483     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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