Purpose: Twenty years ago, von Hapsburg and Peña (2002) wrote a tutorial that reviewed
the literature on speech audiometry and bilingualism and outlined valuable …

It has recently been suggested that bilingualism, rather than age of acquisition, is what
underlies less than nativelike attainment in childhood L2 acquisition. Currently, however, the …

This study investigated impact of urban traffic on the acoustic comfort of roadside schools
through both in-field measurements and on-site survey questionnaires. Six secondary …

The current review examines listening effort to uncover how it is implicated in bilingual
performance under adverse listening conditions. Various measures of listening effort …

Objective: Although numerous studies have shown that musicians have better speech
perception in noise (SPIN) compared to nonmusicians, other studies have not replicated the …

Schools are one of the land uses that are sensitive to traffic noise. While schools must be
silent zones, many are located in urban areas and are exposed to high noise levels. In this …

Bilingual speakers often have difficulty understanding speech in noisy and acoustically
degraded conditions. The first aim was to examine the potential source (s) of the difficulties …

Given the ubiquity of noisy environments and increasing globalization, the necessity to
perceive speech in noise in a non-native language is common and necessary for successful …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare masked English speech recognition
thresholds between Spanish–English bilingual and English monolingual children and to …

The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's
experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also …