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Effects Of Background Noise On The Spoken Language Of Young And Older Adults During Narrative Discourse, Erin Lecheminant
Effects Of Background Noise On The Spoken Language Of Young And Older Adults During Narrative Discourse, Erin Lecheminant
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This study examined how different background noise conditions affected the spoken language production of young (18-25) and older (60-85) adults when performing a story retell task. Participants included 10 female and 10 male young adult (YA) participants, as well as 10 female and 10 male older adult (OA) participants. Participants retold stories in a silent baseline and five background noise conditions (conversation, monologue, phone call, cocktail, pink noise). Speech fluency and language production measures (cohesive and coherent utterances, lexical-phonological errors, grammatically correct words, Moving Average Type Token Ratio (MATTR), speech rate, and disfluent words) were compared between groups and across …