Hearing & Speech Sciences Theses and Dissertations
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INFLUENCE OF SUPPORTIVE CONTEXT AND STIMULUS VARIABILITY ON RAPID ADAPTATION TO NON-NATIVE SPEECH
(2021)Older listeners, particularly those with age-related hearing loss, report a high level of difficulty in perception of non-native speech when queried in clinical settings. In an increasingly global society, addressing these ... -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND PERFORMANCE ON LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT MEASURES IN TYPICALLY-DEVELOPING SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
(2021)This study aimed to better understand the factors that affect bilingual children’s assessment performance and compare the effects of language experience on different types of measures. English language sample measures ... -
Utterance-level predictors of stuttering-like, stall, and revision disfluencies in the speech of young children who do and do not stutter
(2021)Disfluencies are generally divided into two types: stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs), which are characteristic of the speech of people who stutter, and typical disfluencies (TDs), which are produced by nearly all speakers. ... -
Effects of Age, Hearing Loss and Cognition on Discourse Comprehension and Speech Intelligibility Performance
(2020)Discourse comprehension requires listeners to interpret the meaning of an incoming message, integrate the message into memory and use the information to respond appropriately. Discourse comprehension is a skill required ... -
Automatic Syntactic Processing in Agrammatic Aphasia: The Effect of Grammatical Violations
(2020)This study aimed to examine syntactic processing in agrammatic aphasia. We hypothesized that agrammatic individuals’ automatic syntactic processing would be preserved, as measured by word monitoring task, and their knowledge ...