Annual Symposium 2021 Poster: Julia Schwarz, Poster for the Incubator Fund project PerMaSC: ‘Speech Perception through Face Masks by Children and Adults’
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Julia Schwarz, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, presents her poster for the Incubator Fund project PerMaSC: ‘Speech Perception through Face Masks by Children and Adults’
You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/61814b93ad7f7c616f522eaa |
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| Created: | 2021-12-14 15:03 |
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Cambridge Language Sciences
Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2021 - Language and Inclusion |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Julia Schwarz |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Speech processing difficulties; Face masks; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 |
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| Abstract: | Face masks can cause speech processing difficulties. However, it is unclear to what extent these difficulties are caused by the visual obstruction of the speaker’s mouth or by changes of the acoustic signal, and whether the effects can be found regardless of semantic context. In the present study, children and adults performed a cued shadowing task online, repeating the last word of English sentences. Target words were embedded in sentence-final position and manipulated visually, acoustically, and by semantic context (cloze probability). First results from 16 children and 16 adults suggest that processing language through face masks leads to slower responses in both groups, but visual, acoustic, and semantic cues all significantly reduce the mask effect. Although children were less proficient in predictive speech processing overall, they were still able to use semantic cues to compensate for face mask effects in a similar fashion to adults. |
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