“…Given the findings that listeners' training and practice can significantly improve intelligibility scores (e.g., Eakins, 1969;Egan, 1948;Epstein, Giolas, & Owens, 1968;Farrimond, 1962;Garvey, 1950;Jerger, Carhart, Tilman, & Peterson, 1959;Licklider, Bindra, & Pollack, 1948;Miller & Isard, 1963;Moser & Dreher, 1955;Orr, Friedman, & Williams, 1965;Stuckey, 1963;Tiffany & Bennett, 1961), it might be expected that speech-language pathologists or other individuals who have frequent experiences judging the intelligibility of speech of others will perform differently from individuals who have not had such experiences. Given the findings that listeners' training and practice can significantly improve intelligibility scores (e.g., Eakins, 1969;Egan, 1948;Epstein, Giolas, & Owens, 1968;Farrimond, 1962;Garvey, 1950;Jerger, Carhart, Tilman, & Peterson, 1959;Licklider, Bindra, & Pollack, 1948;Miller & Isard, 1963;Moser & Dreher, 1955;Orr, Friedman, & Williams, 1965;Stuckey, 1963;Tiffany & Bennett, 1961), it might be expected that speech-language pathologists or other individuals who have frequent experiences judging the intelligibility of speech of others will perform differently from individuals who have not had such experiences.…”