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ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2021

Independent and Combined Effects of Fundamental Frequency and Vocal Tract Length Differences for School-Age Children's Sentence Recognition in a Two-Talker Masker.

Mary M Flaherty, Emily Buss, Lori J Leibold

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Article in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Mary M FlahertyDepartment of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Emily BussDepartment of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lori J LeiboldCenter for Hearing Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE.

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The Impact of Mild Hearing Loss on Auditory Perception in Complex EnvironmentsP20GM109023 · NIGMS · FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME · PI LEIBOLD, LORI J. · 2014 to 2023
$23.4M
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AND RELEASE FROM MASKING IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOODR01DC011038 · NIDCD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LEIBOLD, LORI J. · 2011 to 2020
$4.3M
THE BENEFIT DERIVED FROM ACOUSTIC VOICE DIFFERENCES FOR SPEECH-IN-SPEECH RECOGNITION IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDRENF32DC016771 · NIDCD · FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME · PI FLAHERTY, MARY MARIE · 2017 to 2017
$36k
NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC016771NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011038NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM109023
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Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the independent and combined contributions of fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract length (VTL) differences on children's speech-in-speech recognition in the presence of a competing two-talker masker. Method Participants were 64 children (5-17 years old) and 25 adults (18-39 years old). Sentence recognition thresholds were measured in a two-talker masker. Target sentences had either the same mean F0 and VTL of the masker or were digitally altered so that the target and masker differed in F0 (Experiment 1), differed in VTL (Experiment 2), or differed in both F0 and VTL (Experiment 3). To determine the benefit, masking release was computed by subtracting thresholds in each shifted condition from the threshold in the unshifted condition. Results Results demonstrate that children's ability to benefit from either F0 or VTL differences (Experiments 1 and 2) depended on listener age, with younger children showing less improvement in speech reception thresholds compared to older children and adults. Age effects were also evident in the combined-cue conditions (Experiment 3), but children showed greater improvements compared to F0-only or VTL-only manipulations. Conclusions There was a prolonged pattern of development in children's ability to benefit from F0 or VTL differences between target and masker speech. Young children failed to capitalize on F0 and VTL differences to the same extent as older children and adults but did show a robust benefit when the cues were combined, supporting the hypothesis that younger children rely more heavily on redundant cues compared to older children and adults.

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Speech PerceptionVoiceAdolescentAdultChildChild, PreschoolHumansPerceptual MaskingRecognition, PsychologySchoolsYoung Adult

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PMID33375828
PMCPMC8610228

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