title: Effect of the relationship between target and masker sex on infants' recognition of speech.
abstract: When faced with multiple people speaking simultaneously, adult listeners use the sex of the talkers as a cue for separating competing streams of speech. As a result, adult listeners show better performance when a target and a background voice differ from one another in sex. Recent research suggests that infants under 1 year do not show this advantage. So when do infants begin to use talker-gender cues for stream segregation? These studies find that 16-month-olds do not show an advantage when the masker and target differ in sex. However, by 30 months, toddlers show the more adult-like pattern of performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, 0100 Lefrak Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Rnewman1@umd.edu, gmorini@udel.edu.
authors.forename: Rochelle S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.affiliation: Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, 0100 Lefrak Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Rnewman1@umd.edu, gmorini@udel.edu.
authors.forename: Giovanna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morini
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000367:Age Factors; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013067:Speech Perception; D014833:Voice Quality