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Presentation 2013-06-14 16:00
Aging effects on perceptual learning of /r/-/l/ : Influence of auditory aging
Rieko Kubo, Masato Akagi (JAIST) SP2013-51 WIT2013-21
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(in English) Age-related decrease in training effect was shown by training of American English /r/-/l/ contrasts on Japanese speakers. This study examined whether the decrease can be explained exclusively by auditory aging, or other, age-related changes of upper processing should be taken into account. Young, middle-aged and older adults of Japanese speakers participated in the experiment. Hearing threshold and spoken word perception test were used to estimate their auditory aging. The word perception test was composed of three levels of word-familiarity.
The results suggest that participants had auditory aging emerging as high frequency loss and time-/frequency-resolution degradation. Nonetheless, the acoustic features to distinguish /r/ and /l/ are supposed to be unaffected by these auditory aging. The effect of word familiarity implied compensatory cognitive processing involved. These suggest that age-related decrease cannot be explained exclusively by auditory aging, upper processing should be taken into account.
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(in English) second-language (L2) learning / phoneme acquisition / aging effect / auditory aging / compensation strategies / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 76, SP2013-51, pp. 119-124, June 2013.
Paper # SP2013-51 
Date of Issue 2013-06-06 (SP, WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee SP WIT  
Conference Date 2013-06-13 - 2013-06-14 
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Conference Code 2013-06-SP-WIT 
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Title (in English) Aging effects on perceptual learning of /r/-/l/ : Influence of auditory aging 
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Keyword(1) second-language (L2) learning  
Keyword(2) phoneme acquisition  
Keyword(3) aging effect  
Keyword(4) auditory aging  
Keyword(5) compensation strategies  
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1st Author's Name Rieko Kubo  
1st Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
2nd Author's Name Masato Akagi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
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Date Time 2013-06-14 16:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # SP2013-51, WIT2013-21 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.76(SP), no.77(WIT) 
Page pp.119-124 
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Date of Issue 2013-06-06 (SP, WIT) 


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