Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise

Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise.

Studies of speech perception in various types of background noise have shown that noise with linguistic content affects listeners differently than nonlinguistic noise [e.g., Simpson, S. A., and Cooke, M. (2005). "Consonant identification in N-talker babble is a nonmonotonic function of N," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2775-2778; Sperry, J. L., Wiley, T. L., and Chial, M. R. (1997). "Word recognitio...

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

The intelligibility of speech in noisy environments depends not only on the functionality of listeners' peripheral auditory systems, but also on cognitive factors such as their language learning experience. Previous studies have shown, for example, that normal-hearing listeners attending to a non-native language have more difficulty identifying speech targets in noisy conditions than do native ...

Differential neural contributions to native- and foreign-language talker identification.

Humans are remarkably adept at identifying individuals by the sound of their voice, a behavior supported by the nervous system's ability to integrate information from voice and speech perception. Talker-identification abilities are significantly impaired when listeners are unfamiliar with the language being spoken. Recent behavioral studies describing the language-familiarity effect implicate f...

Multi-talker background and semantic priming effect

The reported studies have aimed to investigate whether informational masking in a multi-talker background relies on semantic interference between the background and target using an adapted semantic priming paradigm. In 3 experiments, participants were required to perform a lexical decision task on a target item embedded in backgrounds composed of 1-4 voices. These voices were Semantically Consi...

Designing Acoustics for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: Effects of Background Noise, Reverberation and Talker Foreign Accent on Speech Comprehension by Native and Non-native English-speaking Listeners