The Adaptation to Mandarin-Accented English by Older, Hearing-Impaired Listeners Following Brief Exposure to the Accent

Autor/inn/en	Hau, Jutta A.; Holt, Colleen M.; Finch, Sue; Dowell, Richard C.
Titel	The Adaptation to Mandarin-Accented English by Older, Hearing-Impaired Listeners Following Brief Exposure to the Accent
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63 (2020) 3, S.858-871 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Mandarin Chinese; Native Language; Pronunciation; Comparative Analysis; Language Processing; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Older Adults; Hearing Impairments; Hearing (Physiology); Auditory Perception; Teaching Methods; Auditory Training; Sentences; Foreign Countries; Speech Communication; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aussprache; Sprachverarbeitung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Älterer Erwachsener; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Gehör; Hören; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Belgien; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Purpose: The language processing of Mandarin-accented English (MAE) by older hearing-impaired (OHI), older normally hearing (NH), and younger NH listeners was explored. We examined whether OHI adults have more difficulty than NH listeners in recognizing and adapting to MAE speech productions after receiving brief training with the accent. Method: Talker-independent adaptation was evaluated in an exposure training study design. Listeners were trained either by four MAE talkers or four Australian English talkers (control group) before listening to sentences presented by a novel MAE talker. Speech recognition for both the training sentences and the experimental sentences were compared between listener groups and between the training accents. Results: Listeners in all three groups (OHI, older NH, younger NH) who had been trained by the MAE talkers showed higher odds of speech recognition than listeners trained by the Australian English talkers. The OHI listeners adapted to MAE to the same degree as the NH groups despite returning lower overall odds of recognizing MAE speech. Conclusions: Older listeners with mild-to-moderate hearing loss were able to benefit as much from brief exposure to MAE as did the NH groups. This encouraging result suggests that OHI listeners have access to and can exploit the information present in a relatively brief sample of accented speech and generalize their learning to a novel MAE talker. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01