Perception of consonants in reverberation by native and non-native listeners
Anna K. Nábělek, Amy M. Donahue · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1984
Speech perception in reverberation was compared for native English speaking and non-native listeners. The Modified Rhyme Test was recorded with reverberation times (T) of 0.4, 0.8, and1.2 s. Testing was monaural. The mean word identification scores without reverberation were similar for both groups. With T=0.8 and 1.2 s, non-native listeners scored 10% lower than the native listeners. These results indicate that non-native listeners who understand English very well in the absence of reverberation might have difficulty understanding speech in the presence of even moderate reverberation.