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Effect of the relationship between target and masker sex on infants' recognition of speech

Author(s) -

Rochelle S. Newman,

Giovanna Morini

Publication year - 2017

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 - 10.1121/1.4976498

Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , acoustics , medicine , physics

When faced with multiple people speaking simultaneously, adult listeners use the sex of the talkers as a cue for separating competing streams of speech. As a result, adult listeners show better performance when a target and a background voice differ from one another in sex. Recent research suggests that infants under 1 year do not show this advantage. So when do infants begin to use talker-gender cues for stream segregation? These studies find that 16-month-olds do not show an advantage when the masker and target differ in sex. However, by 30 months, toddlers show the more adult-like pattern of performance.

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