title: The intelligibility of interrupted speech depends upon its uninterrupted intelligibility.
abstract: Recognition of sentences containing periodic, 5-Hz, silent interruptions of differing duty cycles was assessed for three types of processed speech. Processing conditions employed different combinations of spectral resolution and the availability of fundamental frequency (F0) information, chosen to yield similar, below-ceiling performance for uninterrupted speech. Performance declined with decreasing duty cycle similarly for each processing condition, suggesting that, at least for certain forms of speech processing and interruption rates, performance with interrupted speech may reflect that obtained with uninterrupted speech. This highlights the difficulty in interpreting differences in interrupted speech performance across conditions for which uninterrupted performance is at ceiling.
authors.affiliation: Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom m.ardoint@ucl.ac.uk, stuart@phon.ucl.ac.uk, tim.green@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Marine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ardoint
authors.affiliation: Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom m.ardoint@ucl.ac.uk, stuart@phon.ucl.ac.uk, tim.green@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Green
authors.affiliation: Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom m.ardoint@ucl.ac.uk, stuart@phon.ucl.ac.uk, tim.green@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult