High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained.

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates a novel high variability phonetic training paradigm that involves presenting spoken words in adverse conditions. The effectiveness, generalizability, and longevity of this high variability phonetic training in adverse conditions was evaluated using English phoneme contrasts in three experiments with Malaysian multilinguals. Adverse conditions were created by presenting spoken words against background multi-talker babble. In Experiment 1, the adverse condition level was set at a fixed level throughout the training and in Experiment 2 the adverse condition level was determined for each participant before training using an adaptive staircase procedure. To explore the effectiveness and sustainability of the training, phonemic discrimination ability was assessed before and

SUBMITTER: Leong CXR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177151 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature