Speech perception in noise by monolingual, bilingual and trilingual listeners

Tabri, Dollen; Chacra, Kim Michelle Smith Abou; Pring, Tim

doi:10.3109/13682822.2010.519372

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“…When comparing the two bilingual groups, it is possible to identify that the SGI, that learned the second language after 6 years of age, presented better results, statistically significant (right ear and total) and with significant tendency (left ear) than the SGA, which went through simultaneous learning process. This data disagrees with the authors who defend the existence of critical periods of learning (14) and who claim that the earlier a second language is acquired the lesser are the disadvantages in speech perception (19) . This idea is based on the statement of neuroscientist on children being more efficient learners than adults (14) .…”

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“…Studies have shown that, even achieving a high proficiency level in the second language, the bilingual individuals present greater difficulty when subjected to tests in their second language (18,19) . Therefore, in this study, the assessment was conducted in Portuguese, native language of all participants.…”

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“…Regarding the age of acquisition of the second language, studies indicate simultaneous learning as the ideal situation, since this would not cause any disadvantages in the skills of speech perception (19) . These theories are based on the so called critical or sensitive periods for the acquisition of a second language, since the greater elasticity children's brains would make them more efficient apprentices (14) .…”

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“…In literature, some aspects are discussed when indicated as possible benefits and disadvantages of the bilingualism, such as the level of proficiency (19) and the age of acquisition of the second language, related to the critical period of learning (14) . As was observed, there was no difference when comparing the performance of the SGA and the SGI in DDT, exposing the benefits of bilingualism in the development listening skills, regardless the time of the acquisition of the second language.…”

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Bilingualism and auditory processing abilities: performance of adults in dichotic listening tests

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Purpose: To evaluate and compare the dichotic listening abilities in non-hearing-impaired adults monolingual speakers of the Brazilian Portuguese language (CG) and simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German (GG) bilingual speakers or successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian bilingual speakers (IG). Methods: This is about an observational, descriptive, transverse and quantitative research. The sample consisted of 87 subjects aged between 18 and 55 years, divided into: Control Group (CG), of 30 monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese; Study Group A (SGA), of 31 simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German bilingual speakers; and Study Group I (SGI), of 26 successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian speakers. The individuals were submitted to the Dichotic digits test (DDT) and to Staggered Spondaic Words (SSW). Results: The DTT results showed difference in right ear and total scores when comparing SGA to CG. Comparing the CG and the SGI, it was observed difference in right and left ears and total scores. Comparing the SGA and the SGI, no difference was observed between the groups. Results of SSW showed that both bilingual groups were significantly better in the right and left ears scores and even in total one when compared to CG. Comparing the SGA and the SGI, the SGI showed better significant scores in the right ear and total. Conclusion: Bilingual experiences seem to influence positively the ability of high predictability dichotic listening, evaluated by DDT, and the low predictability dichotic listening, evaluated by SSW test. The SSW results also showed statistically significantly better results for successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian bilingual speakers when compared to simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German speakers.

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Bilingualism and auditory processing abilities: performance of adults in dichotic listening tests

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“…Various studies indicate that participants who speak English as a second language perform worse on competing signal speech tests compared to native-English speakers (Tabri et al, 2011;van Wijngaarden et al, 2002;Zokoll et al, 2013), although the effect of non-nativeness on digit-triplet recognition in noise is small (Kaandorp et al, 2015). It is therefore important that different norms should be investigated for the South African English digit-in-noise hearing test as South Africa consists of a multilingual population.…”

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