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Lauren Petley; Chelsea Blankenship; Lisa L. Hunter; Hannah J. Stewart; Li Lin; David R. Moore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Amplitude modulations (AMs) are important for speech intelligibility, and deficits in speech intelligibility are a leading source of impairment in childhood listening difficulties (LiD). The present study aimed to explore the relationships between AM perception and speech-in-noise (SiN) comprehension in children and to determine whether…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Children
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Emily W. Wang; Maria I. Grigos – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe changes in speech intelligibility and interrater and intrarater reliability of naive listeners' ratings of words produced by young children diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) over a period of motor-based intervention (dynamic temporal and tactile cueing [DTTC]). Method: A total of 120…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intelligibility, Speech Impairments, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Gianakas, Steven P.; Fitzgerald, Matthew B.; Winn, Matthew B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: An extra moment after a sentence is spoken may be important for listeners with hearing loss to mentally repair misperceptions during listening. The current audiologic test battery cannot distinguish between a listener who repaired a misperception versus a listener who heard the speech accurately with no need for repair. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intelligibility, Intervals, Hearing Impairments
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Mark A. Eckert; Lois J. Matthews; Kenneth I. Vaden Jr.; Judy R. Dubno – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Speech recognition in noise is challenging for listeners and appears to require support from executive functions to focus attention on rapidly unfolding target speech, track misunderstanding, and sustain attention. The current study was designed to test the hypothesis that lower executive function abilities explain poorer speech…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Intelligibility, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
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Gutz, Sarah E.; Rowe, Hannah P.; Tilton-Bolowsky, Victoria E.; Green, Jordan R. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a growing interest in the functional impact of masks on speech and communication. Prior work has shown that masks dampen sound, impede visual communication cues, and reduce intelligibility. However, more work is needed to understand how speakers change their speech while wearing a mask and to…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Disease Control, Health Behavior, COVID-19
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Roger Segura Arias; Karla Daniela Herrera Rodríguez – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2024
This qualitative case study examined the impact of listening to Global Englishes on the development of listening comprehension in pre-intermediate English students at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. Using questionnaires, focus groups, and observations, the research explored students' perceptions of various English speakers from different…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Carl, Micalle; Icht, Michal – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Developmental dysarthria is a motor speech impairment commonly characterized by varying levels of reduced speech intelligibility. The relationship between intelligibility deficits and acoustic vowel space among these individuals has long been noted in the literature, with evidence of vowel centralization (e.g., in English and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Impairments, Correlation, Auditory Perception
Hitoshi Nishizawa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many studies evidence the flexibility of speech perception in the first language (L1), which allows rapid adaptation to unfamiliar foreign accents. Two influential studies by Bradlow and Bent (2008) and a follow-up study by Baese-Berk et al. (2013) found that increased variability as a function of the number of talkers and accents facilitated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
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Heinrich, Antje – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Listening to speech in a noisy background is difficult for everyone. While such listening has historically been considered mainly in the context of auditory processing, the role of cognition has attracted considerable interest in recent years. This has been particularly true in the context of life-span research and the comparison of younger and…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Acoustics, Speech Communication, Auditory Perception
King, Edward Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Spoken words vary phonetically along a number of dimensions, such as duration, pitch, and vowel quality. Much of this variation is associated with social factors like the dialect, age, or gender of the speaker -- a type of variation termed 'socio-indexical'. Traditional theories of speech perception have seen this socio-indexical variation as a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Phonetics, Intonation
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Daniels, Paul – TESL-EJ, 2022
This paper compares the speaking scores generated by two online systems that are designed to automatically grade student speech and provide personalized speaking feedback in an EFL context. The first system, "Speech Assessment for Moodle" ("SAM"), is an open-source solution developed by the author that makes use of Google's…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Auditory Perception, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing
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Kermad, Alyssa; Bogorevich, Valeria – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The practice of second language (L2) speech perception has traditionally relied on equal-interval perceptual scales and novice listeners' (NLs) impressionistic judgments of constructs such as accentedness and comprehensibility (Munro & Derwing, 2011). However, issues have surfaced with respect to how well NLs can use these scales, whether they…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Intelligibility, Rating Scales
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Kang, Okim; Moran, Meghan; Ahn, Hyunkee; Park, Soon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Factors that affect comprehension of accented English (e.g., Harding, 2011) have been well studied, but little research examines how listeners' proficiency affects their sensitivity to second language (L2) accent. The current study investigated the effect of test takers' English proficiency on their comprehension ratings and ability to correctly…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Shinsook; Kang, Jaekoo; Nam, Hosung – Second Language Research, 2022
This study investigates how second language (L2) listeners' perception is affected by two factors: the listeners' experience with the target dialect -- North American English (NAE) vs. Standard Southern British English (SSBE) -- and talkers' language background: native vs. non-native talkers; i.e. interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xin Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the past few decades, there has been considerable effort to find the mechanisms through which adult listeners can accommodate the rampant phonetic variation in natural speech. My dissertation concerns one source of variability: phonetic variation in speech produced by individuals with foreign accents. Mounting evidence shows that listeners…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Language Variation
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