Cross-language differences in informational masking of speech by speech: English versus mandarin Chinese

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1506-1524

  Wu, Xihong ^a   Yang, Zhigang ^a   Huang, Ying ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Daneman, Meredyth ^b   Schneider, Bruce A ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energetic masking; English versus chinese languages; Informational masking; Lexical access; Speech comprehension; Speech perception; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CANADA; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755195824     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0282)     Document Type: Article

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