Previous research has shown that as the level of background noise increases, auditory word
recognition performance drops off more rapidly for bilinguals than monolinguals. This …

Purpose: This study investigates whether crosslinguistic effects on auditory word recognition
are modulated by the quality of the auditory signal (clear and noisy). Method: In an online …

Bilinguals are known to perform worse than monolinguals on speech-in-noise tests.
However, the mechanisms underlying this difference are unclear. By varying the amount of …

The question of whether bilingualism leads to advantages or disadvantages in linguistic
abilities has been debated for many years. It is unclear whether growing up with one versus …

Spoken language comprehension is a fundamental component of our cognitive skills. We
are quite proficient at deciphering words from the auditory input despite the fact that the …

Objectives: Speech perception in noise is challenging, but evidence suggests that it may be
facilitated by visual speech cues (eg, lip movements) and supportive sentence context in …

The present study sought to explain why bilingual speakers are disadvantaged relative to
monolingual speakers when it comes to speech understanding in noise. Exemplar models of …

When speech is presented in their second language (L2), bilinguals have more difficulties
with speech perception in noise than monolinguals do. However, how noise affects speech …

Bilinguals are better able to perceive speech-in-noise in their native compared to their non-
native language. This benefit is thought to be due to greater use of higher-level, linguistic …

Listening to speech in the presence of interfering auditory stimuli is a well-studied
phenomenon in second language (L2) listeners. L2 auditory processing has been …