Julie A Brent, Harisadhan Patra, Petula C Vaz
This study examined the effect of speakers' language background and noise on the perception of American English (AE) plosives. Six normal-hearing, young-adults volunteered for the study. Participants listened to speech tokens of six plosives, /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/ in the initial, medial, and final positions in the context of three vowels, /a/, /i/, and /u/, spoken by native Bangladeshi Bengali (BB) and AE speakers. Tokens were presented at 45, 65, and 65 dB SPL, either in quiet or noise. Multitalker babble, speech noise, and 1000-2000 Hz, 2000-4000 Hz, and 500-5000 Hz noise bands were used as noise...
November 2013: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America