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speech perception, non-native, noise, masking
Abstract:
This paper reports on a multilingual investigation into the
effects of different masker types on native and non-native
perception in a VCV consonant recognition task. Native
listeners outperformed 7 other language groups, but all groups
showed a similar ranking of maskers. Strong first language
(L1) interference was observed, both from the sound system
and from the L1 orthography. Universal acoustic-perceptual
tendencies are also at work in both native and non-native
sound identifications in noise. The effect of linguistic
distance, however, was less clear: in large multilingual
studies, listener variables may overpower other factors.
