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Intelligibility of British- and American-Accented Sentences for American Younger and Older Listeners With and Without Hearing Loss by Sadie Schilaty; Sarah Hargus Ferguson; Shae D. Morgan; Caroline Champougny is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background: Older adults with hearing loss often report difficulty understanding british-accented speech, such as in television or movies, after having understood such speech in the past. a few studies have examined the intelligibility of various united states regional and non-u.s. varieties of english for american listeners, but only for young adults with normal hearing. ## Purpose: This preliminary study sought to determine whether british-accented sentences were less intelligible than american-accented sentences for american younger and older adults with normal hearing and for older adults with hearing loss. ## Research design: A mixed-effects design, with talker accent and listening condition as within-subjects factors and listener group as a between-subjects factor. ## Study sample: Three listener groups consisting of 16 young adults with normal hearing, 15 older adults with essentially normal hearing, and 22 older adults with sloping sensorineural hearing loss. ## Data collection and analysis: Sentences produced by one general american english speaker and one british english speaker were presented to listeners at 70 db sound pressure level in quiet and in babble. signal-to

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Author

Sadie Schilaty; Sarah Hargus Ferguson; Shae D. Morgan; Caroline Champougny

Publisher

Georg Thieme Verlag KG

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)