Do nonnative listeners benefit as much as native listeners from spatial cues that release speech from masking?

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 919-929

  Ezzatian, Payam ^a   Avivi, Meital ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Energetic masking; Informational masking; Second language; Speech comprehension; Speech perception; Stream segregation

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; ENERGETIC MASKING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STREAM SEGREGATION;

HYDRAULICS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 78649320549     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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