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Clear Speech Effects For Vowels Produced By Monolingual And Bilingual Talkers, Teresa Demasi
Clear Speech Effects For Vowels Produced By Monolingual And Bilingual Talkers, Teresa Demasi
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
'Clear speech' is a speaking style that talkers often employ when they know they may have trouble being understood, as when speaking in noise or to a person with a hearing loss. When 'clear speech' produced by native talkers is presented in noise to native listeners, it has been shown to be about 10-15 percentage points more intelligible, on average, than normally produced speech. Recent research has shown that bilingual listeners may experience a smaller intelligibility benefit than monolingual listeners from 'clear speech' produced by monolingual talkers. The present study compares the ability of monolingual and bilingual talkers to produce …