Effect of Speaker Voice and Background Language on Spoken Word Recall
Open Access
- Author:
- El-Dinary, Amira
- Area of Honors:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Navin Viswanathan, Thesis Supervisor
Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- speech perception
psycholinguistics
word recall
word memory
recall
memory
background language
speech-in-speech
talker-specific effects
linguistic release from masking
masking
auditory masking
word learning
word comprehension
language comprehension
language learning - Abstract:
- Understanding spoken language is a skill that we rely on every day but think little about. The task of listening is complex and can be difficult in a variety of situations. There are differences between each of our voices that listeners must adjust to in any given conversation. Additionally, surrounding sounds compete for attention and pull it away from the conversation at hand. Previous studies have shown that recall accuracy improves when words are repeatedly spoken by a “known voice” (Mattys and Liss, 2008, Nygaard and Pisoni, 1998). It has also been found that listeners recognize speech better when the words in the background are in a different language than the words that someone is attending to (Brouwer et al., 2012, Calandruccio et al., 2013, Viswanathan et al., 2016). By adding background sentences in the exposure-test design from typical known voice studies, the current study used an online experiment which evaluated whether these effects can be measured in combination to search for possible interactive effects. Findings from this study extend to the fields of audiology, psychology, linguistics, and speech therapy.