Word perception errors of children and adults in noise and quiet
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https://doi.org/10.36505/TheLinguisticProceedings/2025/17/02/018/000704Keywords:
speech perception, noise, word errors, children, adultsAbstract
Accurate speech perception is vital for spoken language comprehension and effective communication. Especially for children, spoken word recognition is crucial for vocabulary, language, and knowledge acquisition in general. However, listening conditions in the classroom are often adverse, due to poor classroom acoustics. The present study investigates word perception errors made by adults and children in noise and quiet. Besides performance (word recognition score), word misconceptions are also analysed in relation to phonological, semantic and other lexical properties, i.e. word familiarity and frequency as well as phonological neighbourhood density metrics. This type of error analysis can be more informative of the nature of difficulties encountered by the listener during speech recognition in adverse conditions, and provide insights into the relationship between linguistic knowledge and speech perception in noise.References
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