PMID- 25400538
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141117
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1662-4548 (Print)
IS  - 1662-453X (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-453X (Linking)
VI  - 8
DP  - 2014
TI  - English vowel identification in quiet and noise: effects of listeners' native 
      language background.
PG  - 305
LID - 10.3389/fnins.2014.00305 [doi]
LID - 305
AB  - PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of listener's native language (L1) and the 
      types of noise on English vowel identification in noise. METHOD: Identification 
      of 12 English vowels was measured in quiet and in long-term speech-shaped noise 
      and multi-talker babble (MTB) noise for English- (EN), Chinese- (CN) and 
      Korean-native (KN) listeners at various signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). RESULTS: 
      Compared to non-native listeners, EN listeners performed significantly better in 
      quiet and in noise. Vowel identification in long-term speech-shaped noise and in 
      MTB noise was similar between CN and KN listeners. This is different from our 
      previous study in which KN listeners performed better than CN listeners in 
      English sentence recognition in MTB noise. DISCUSSION: RESULTS from the current 
      study suggest that depending on speech materials, the effect of non-native 
      listeners' L1 on speech perception in noise may be different. That is, in the 
      perception of speech materials with little linguistic cues like isolated vowels, 
      the characteristics of non-native listener's native language may not play a 
      significant role. On the other hand, in the perception of running speech in which 
      listeners need to use more linguistic cues (e.g., acoustic-phonetic, semantic, 
      and prosodic cues), the non-native listener's native language background might 
      result in a different masking effect.
FAU - Jin, Su-Hyun
AU  - Jin SH
AD  - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin 
      Austin, TX, USA.
FAU - Liu, Chang
AU  - Liu C
AD  - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin 
      Austin, TX, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140929
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Neurosci
JT  - Frontiers in neuroscience
JID - 101478481
PMC - PMC4212258
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - bilingual
OT  - english vowel identification in noise
OT  - masking release
OT  - multi-talker babble noise
OT  - native language
OT  - speech perception
EDAT- 2014/11/18 06:00
MHDA- 2014/11/18 06:01
PMCR- 2014/01/01
CRDT- 2014/11/18 06:00
PHST- 2014/06/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/09/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/11/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/11/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/11/18 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fnins.2014.00305 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Neurosci. 2014 Sep 29;8:305. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00305. eCollection 
      2014.