Linguistic contributions to speech-on-speech masking for native and non-native listeners: Language familiarity and semantic content

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1449-1464

  Brouwer, Susanne ^a   Van Engen, Kristin J ^b   Calandruccio, Lauren ^c   Bradlow, Ann R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SECOND LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC CONTENT; SPEECH-ON-SPEECH MASKING; TARGET SPEECH;

SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857420806     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3675943     Document Type: Article

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