Assessing the effects of “native speaker” status on classic findings in speech research.
Julia Feld Strand, Violet Aurora Brown, Katrina Sewell, Yuxin Lin, Emmett Lefkowitz, Caroline G Saksena · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2024
= 200) and sentence (N = 300) identification tasks in quiet and in moderate levels of background noise. Results indicate that multiple classic findings in speech perception research-including the effects of noise level, lexical density, and semantic context on speech intelligibility-persist regardless of "native English" speaking status. However, the magnitude of some of these effects differed across participant groups. Taken together, these results suggest that researchers should carefully consider whether native speaker status is likely to affect outcomes and make decisions about inclusion criteria on a study-by-study basis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).