title: Contextual variability during speech-in-speech recognition.
abstract: This study examined the influence of background language variation on speech recognition. English listeners performed an English sentence recognition task in either "pure" background conditions in which all trials had either English or Dutch background babble or in mixed background conditions in which the background language varied across trials (i.e., a mix of English and Dutch or one of these background languages mixed with quiet trials). This design allowed the authors to compare performance on identical trials across pure and mixed conditions. The data reveal that speech-in-speech recognition is sensitive to contextual variation in terms of the target-background language (mis)match depending on the relative ease/difficulty of the test trials in relation to the surrounding trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208 s.m.brouwer@uu.nl, abradlow@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brouwer
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208 s.m.brouwer@uu.nl, abradlow@northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Ann R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Bradlow
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult