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Influence of language experience on digit recognition by English and Chinese listeners

Author(s) -

Xiaoqing Zhou,

Wei Yuan,

John J. Galvin,

QianJie Fu,

Ying Zhang

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4929617

Subject(s) - quiet , active listening , memory span , numerical digit , recall , noise (video) , psychology , speech recognition , audiology , linguistics , cognition , computer science , cognitive psychology , communication , mathematics , arithmetic , working memory , artificial intelligence , medicine , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , image (mathematics)

Digit recognition was measured in quiet and in two noise conditions by English-native (EN) and Chinese-native (CN) listeners. EN listeners were tested using English digits and CN listeners were tested using both English and Chinese digits. In quiet, forward digit span recall worsened for both groups as the number of digits was increased. Significant effects of language experience were observed with five or more digits. Language experience had a significant effect on digit recognition in babble but not in steady noise. These results suggest that understanding of a nonnative language can be influenced by both cognitive load and listening environment.

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