If listening in adverse conditions is hard, then listening in a foreign language is doubly so:
non-native listeners have to cope with both imperfect signals and imperfect knowledge …

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security
Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with …

Native American English and non-native (Dutch) listeners identified either the consonant or
the vowel in all possible American English CV and VC syllables. The syllables were …

Speech is the primary vehicle of human social interaction. In everyday life, speech
communication occurs under an enormous range of different environmental conditions. The …

When listening to languages learned at a later age, speech intelligibility is generally lower
than when listening to one's native language. The main purpose of this study is to quantify …

The intelligibility of speech is known to be lower if the speaker is non-native instead of native
for the given language. This study is aimed at quantifying the overall degradation due to …

Children 5, 9, and 11 years of age and young adults attempted to identify the final word of
sentences recorded by a female speaker. The sentences were presented in two levels of …

L2 listening can involve the phantom activation of words which are not actually in the input.
All spoken-word recognition involves multiple concurrent activation of word candidates, with …

The experiment reported here used time-compressed speech to handicap the process of
listening comprehension in an attempt to observe aural processing strategy differences …

Appropriate classroom acoustics and academic achievement of children is known to be
correlated. To date, however, there remains a lack of research concerning the importance of …