Non-native speech perception in adverse conditions: A review

MLG Lecumberri, M Cooke, A Cutler - Speech communication, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

Why listening in background noise is harder in a non-native language than in a native language: A review

O Scharenborg, M van Os - Speech Communication, 2019 - Elsevier
There is ample evidence that recognising words in a non-native language is more difficult
than in a native language, even for those with a high proficiency in the non-native language …

Modeling consonant-vowel coarticulation for articulatory speech synthesis

P Birkholz - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
A central challenge for articulatory speech synthesis is the simulation of realistic articulatory
movements, which is critical for the generation of highly natural and intelligible speech. This …

[책][B] Aviation English: A lingua franca for pilots and air traffic controllers

D Estival, C Farris, B Molesworth - 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Aviation English investigates the key issues related to the use of English for the purpose of
communication in aviation and analyses the current research on language training, testing …

The influence of non-native language proficiency on speech perception performance

L Kilman, A Zekveld, M Hällgren… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The present study examined to what extent proficiency in a non-native language influences
speech perception in noise. We explored how English proficiency affected native (Swedish) …

Lipreading: A review of its continuing importance for speech recognition with an acquired hearing loss and possibilities for effective training

LE Bernstein, N Jordan, ET Auer, SP Eberhardt - American Journal of …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The goal of this review article is to reinvigorate interest in lipreading and lipreading
training for adults with acquired hearing loss. Most adults benefit from being able to see the …

Perception of American–English vowels by early and late Spanish–English bilinguals

M Baigorri, L Campanelli, ES Levy - Language and speech, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Increasing numbers of Hispanic immigrants are entering the US and learning American–
English (AE) as a second language (L2). Previous studies investigating the relationship …

Perceptual learning of speech under optimal and adverse conditions.

X Zhang, AG Samuel - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans have a remarkable ability to understand spoken language despite the large amount
of variability in speech. Previous research has shown that listeners can use lexical …

The effect of background noise on the word activation process in nonnative spoken-word recognition.

O Scharenborg, JMJ Coumans… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract This article investigates 2 questions:(1) does the presence of background noise
lead to a differential increase in the number of simultaneously activated candidate words in …

Processing time and comprehensibility judgments in non-native listeners' perception of L2 speech

A Ludwig, JC Mora - Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2017 - jbe-platform.com
This study investigated the relationship between processing time and comprehensibility
judgments in non-native listeners' perception of L2 speech as a function of an L1-match …