The bilingual disadvantage in speech understanding in noise is likely a frequency effect related to reduced language exposure
The present study sought to explain why bilingual speakers are disadvantaged relative to monolingual speakers when it comes to speech understanding in noise. Exemplar models of the mental lexicon hold that each encounter with a word leaves a memory trace in long-term memory. Words that we encounter...
Main Author: | Jens eSchmidtke |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00678/full |
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