Japanese listeners' identification of English voiceless fricatives in reverberant listening environments
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This research investigated the identification ability of English voiceless fricatives by Japanese listeners with high and low English proficiency. A perceptual experiment was carried out in five listening environments: RT (Reverberation Time) = 0.78 s, 1.12 s, 1.43 s, RT = 0.78 s + background noise at SNR (Signal-to-Noise ratio) = 10 dB, and quiet. Correct identification rates were calculated and influence of the Japanese listeners’ English proficiency was considered by means of TOEIC® scores. In addition, confusion matrices were created to investigate the misperception patterns. The results were then compared with those of native English listeners’. Results showed that there was a significant difference between English and Japanese listeners, but no significant difference between English listeners and Japanese listeners with higher English proficiency. However, detailed analyses of misperception patterns revealed differences between the two groups as well as similarities between Japanese with higher and lower English proficiency.
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Perception of English voiceless fricatives by Japanese and English native listeners under various signal-to-noise ratios
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