| Autor: |
Sarah Alageel, Valeriy Shafiro, Stanley Sheft |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142:EL155-EL161 |
| ISSN: |
0001-4966 |
| DOI: |
10.1121/1.4994675 |
| Popis: |
Past studies of speech-on-speech masking in young adults (YA) indicate that the intelligibility of masked speech can improve if the target and masker speech are in different languages. Current work investigated whether a linguistic masking release is obtained in older adults (OA) with age-typical hearing abilities. Participants listened to English sentences in the presence of two-talker Spanish or English maskers. A similar masking release with Spanish-language maskers was obtained for OA and YA listeners, despite greater accuracy by YA listeners. In speech-on-speech masking, older listeners can thus improve speech intelligibility by utilizing nonenergetic linguistic differences between the target and masker speech. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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