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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.40 686-693 June 1997.
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Age of Second-Language Acquisition and Perception of Speech in Noise

Lynn Hansberry Mayo 1
Mary Florentine 1

Søren Buus 1
1 Northeastern University Boston, MA

To determine how age of acquisition influences perception of second-language speech, the Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) test was administered to native Mexican-Spanish-speaking listeners who learned fluent English before age 6 (early bilinguals) or after age 14 (late bilinguals) and monolingual American-English speakers (monolinguals). Results show that the levels of noise at which the speech was intelligible were significantly higher and the benefit from context was significantly greater for monolinguals and early bilinguals than for late bilinguals. These findings indicate that learning a second language at an early age is important for the acquisition of efficient high-level processing of it, at least in the presence of noise.

KEY WORDS: second language, speech in noise, age of acquisition, age of learning, non-native speech perception

Submitted on August 2, 1996
Accepted on January 11, 1997


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