The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the recommended/required use of face masks in
public. The use of a face mask compromises communication, especially in the presence of …

Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception, Third Edition
is a high-quality text for undergraduate and graduate courses in speech and hearing …

This study examined whether speech-on-speech masking is sensitive to variation in the
degree of similarity between the target and the masker speech. Three experiments …

Purpose The authors sought to investigate interactions among intelligibility-enhancing
speech cues (ie, semantic context, clearly produced speech, and visual information) across …

The comprehension of speech in a second language (L2) is difficult in many ways. Some of
the difficulties involved, like the listener's unfamiliarity with a word, theconfusability of two …

The intelligibility of speech in noisy environments depends not only on the functionality of
listeners' peripheral auditory systems, but also on cognitive factors such as their language …

Persons with aphasia (PWA) often report difficulty understanding spoken language in noisy
environments that require listeners to identify and selectively attend to target speech while …

Purpose To investigate masking release for speech maskers for linguistically and
phonetically close (English and Dutch) and distant (English and Mandarin) language pairs …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine sentence-recognition performance for a
large, diverse group of nonnative speakers of English on the recently developed Basic …

Purpose To examine whether improved speech recognition during linguistically mismatched
target–masker experiments is due to linguistic unfamiliarity of the masker speech or …