Rapid adaptation to non-native speech is impaired in cochlear implant users | Zendy

Michelle R. Kapolowicz | Zendy; Vahid Montazeri | Zendy; Melissa M. BaeseBerk | Zendy; FanGang Zeng | Zendy; Peter F. Assmann | Zendy

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Rapid adaptation to non-native speech is impaired in cochlear implant users

Author(s) -

Michelle R. Kapolowicz,

Vahid Montazeri,

Melissa M. BaeseBerk,

FanGang Zeng,

Peter F. Assmann

Publication year - 2020

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 - 10.1121/10.0001941

Subject(s) - cochlear implant , intelligibility (philosophy) , audiology , adaptation (eye) , speech perception , hearing impaired , speech recognition , acoustics , psychology , computer science , medicine , perception , physics , neuroscience , philosophy , epistemology

To examine difficulties experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users when perceiving non-native speech, intelligibility of non-native speech was compared in conditions with single and multiple alternating talkers. Compared to listeners with normal hearing, no rapid talker-dependent adaptation was observed and performance was approximately 40% lower for CI users following increased exposure in both talker conditions. Results suggest that lower performance for CI users may stem from combined effects of limited spectral resolution, which diminishes perceptible differences across accents, and limited access to talker-specific acoustic features of speech, which reduces the ability to adapt to non-native speech in a talker-dependent manner.

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