Lexical and Talker Effects on Word Recognition Among Native and Non-Native Listeners With Normal and Impaired Hearing

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 585 - 597
• Main Authors: Takayanagi, Sumiko, Dirks, Donald D, Moshfegh, Anahita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rockville, MD ASHA 01.06.2002; American Speech Language Hearing Association; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Subjects: Accent; Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Audiometry, Pure-Tone; Auditory Perception; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition & reasoning; Difficulty Level; English (Second Language); Familiarity; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Handicap; Hearing impaired; Hearing impairment; Hearing Impairments; Hearing loss; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - diagnosis; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - epidemiology; Humans; Individual Differences; Language; Lexical functioning; Lexicology; Limited English Speaking; Linguistics; Listening; Listening Comprehension; Long Term Memory; Male; Memory; Native language; Native Speakers; Neighborhoods; Phonetics; Phonology; Psychology and medicine; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Recognition (Psychology); Second languages; Short Term Memory; Speech; Speech Intelligibility; Speech perception; Speech Perception - physiology; Spoken words; Structural Equation Models; Vocabulary; Word Frequency; Word Recognition; United States; Human; Word; Mother language; Lexicon; Auditory disorder; Verbal perception; Voice; Foreign language; Recognition; Speaker
• ISSN: 1092-4388; 1558-9102
• DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/047)

This study examined effects of talker variability and lexical difficulty on spoken-word recognition among native and non-native listeners with either normal or impaired hearing. Non-native listeners required greater intensity for equal intelligibility than native listeners. Significant effects of talker variability and lexical difficulty were found for all groups and an audibility factor was more important than a linguistic-familiarity factor. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)