Title :
Listening in a second language
Author :
Bond, Z.S. ; Moore, Thomas J. ; Gable, Beverley
Author_Institution :
Armstrong Labs., Ohio Univ., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Abstract :
Native and non-native listeners identified English words and sentences in six different listening conditions. When they heard speech mixed with noise or when they had to use linguistic knowledge to respond, non-native listeners suffered greater performance decrements than native listeners. Their performance appears to be data-driven (`bottom-up´), requiring full specification of the acoustic-phonetic information that is relevant for selecting a particular word
Keywords :
acoustic noise; hearing; languages; linguistics; speech intelligibility; English sentence identification; English word identification; acoustic-phonetic information; data-driven bottom-up performance; linguistic knowledge; listening conditions; native listeners; noise; nonnative listeners; performance decrements; second language; speech; 1f noise; Band pass filters; Bonding; Laboratories; Materials testing; Natural languages; Signal to noise ratio; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607323
