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Liu, Chang; Jin, Su-Hyun – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate vowel detection and identification in noise and provide baseline data regarding how vowel perception changed with signal-to-noise ratios. Psychometric functions of vowel detection and identification for 12 American English isolated vowels in long-term speech-shaped noise were examined for young…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Vowels, Speech Communication, Identification
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Jin, Su-Hyun; Liu, Chang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the intelligibility of English consonants and vowels produced by Chinese-native (CN), and Korean-native (KN) students enrolled in American universities. Method: 16 English-native (EN), 32 CN, and 32 KN speakers participated in this study. The intelligibility of 16 American English consonants and 16…
Descriptors: North American English, Vowels, Phonemes, Foreign Students
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Liu, Chang; Jin, Su-Hyun – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This study examined intelligibility of twelve American English vowels produced by English, Chinese, and Korean native speakers in quiet and speech-shaped noise in which vowels were presented at six sensation levels from 0 dB to 10 dB. The slopes of vowel intelligibility functions and the processing time for listeners to identify vowels were…
Descriptors: North American English, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Vowels