Native and non-native listeners' perception of English consonants in different types of noise

This paper shows that the effect of different types of noise on recognition of different phonemes by native versus non-native listeners is highly variable, even within classes of phonemes with the same manner or place of articulation. In a phoneme identification experiment, English and Dutch listeners heard all 24 English consonants in VCV stimuli in quiet and in three types of noise: competing talker, speechshaped noise, and modulated speech-shaped noise (all with SNRs of

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SPEECH
• Authors: Mirjam Broersma, Odette Scharenborg
• Keywords: Dutch Listeners, Noise Types, Non-native Listeners, Security Privacy, SPEECH 2010