A Comprehensive Approach to Specificity Effects in Spoken‐Word Recognition

McLennan, Conor T.; Incera, Sara

doi:10.1002/9781119184096.ch8

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“…There is significant literature examining spoken word recognition under a variety of different conditions (e.g., Lively et al, 1994;Weber & Scharenborg, 2012). The spoken word recognition environment consists of the talker, speech signal, listener, and context, each of which may be associated with challenges (McLennan & Incera, 2021).…”

Section: Spoken Word Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining listeners’ perception of spoken words with different face masks

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Tuft

Morich

et al. 2023

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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The COVID-19 pandemic made face masks part of daily life. While masks protect against the virus, it is important to understand the impact masks have on listeners’ recognition of spoken words. We examined spoken word recognition in three different mask conditions (no mask; cloth mask; Kn95 mask) and in both easy (low density, high phonotactic probability) and hard (high density, low phonotactic probability) words in a lexical decision task. In Experiment 1, participants heard all words and nonwords in all three mask conditions. In Experiment 2, participants heard each word and nonword only once in one of the mask conditions. The reaction time and accuracy results were consistent between Experiments 1 and 2. The pattern of results was such that the no mask condition produced the fastest and most accurate responses followed by the Kn95 mask condition and the cloth mask condition, respectively. Furthermore, there was a trend toward a speed-accuracy tradeoff with Word Type. Easy words produced faster but less accurate responses relative to hard words. The finding that cloth masks had a more detrimental impact on spoken word recognition than Kn95 masks is consistent with previous research, and the current results further demonstrate that this effect extends to individual word recognition tasks with only audio presentation.

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Section: Spoken Word Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%