Cross-Language Differences in Informational Masking of Speech by Speech: English versus Mandarin Chinese

Autor/inn/en	Wu, Xihong; Yang, Zhigang; Huang, Ying; Chen, Jing; Li, Liang; Daneman, Meredyth; Schneider, Bruce A.
Titel	Cross-Language Differences in Informational Masking of Speech by Speech: English versus Mandarin Chinese
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54 (2011) 6, S.1506-1524 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0282)
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Morphemes; Monolingualism; Mandarin Chinese; Vocabulary Development; English; Contrastive Linguistics; Speech Communication; Acoustics; Listening; Performance; Scores; Task Analysis; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Morphem; Wortschatzarbeit; English language; Englisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Akustik; Hörvorgang; Zuhören; Achievement; Leistung; Aufgabenanalyse; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine why perceived spatial separation provides a greater release from informational masking in Chinese than English when target sentences in each of the languages are masked by other talkers speaking the same language. Method: Monolingual speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese listened to semantically anomalous sentences in their own language when 1 of 3 maskers was present (speech-spectrum noise, a 2-talker speech masker in the same language, and a 2-talker speech masker in the other language). Results: Both groups benefitted equally from spatial separation when the maskers were speech-spectrum noise or cross-language. Chinese listeners benefitted less from spatial separation than did English listeners when a same-language masker was used. Performance was scored in terms of the number of target words correctly identified; because Chinese target words were composed of 2 "stand-alone" morphemes, the authors also scored Chinese target words as correct when either of the morphemes was correctly identified. When this was done, Chinese and English listeners benefitted equally from spatial separation in all conditions. Conclusion: These results support a model in which release from informational masking in both monolingual English and Chinese listeners occurs because spatial separation facilitates morpheme access in both languages. (As Provided).
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