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Effect of linguistic interference on sentence identification.

H Lew1, J Jerger

  • 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

Ear and Hearing
|October 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Bilingual speakers experience more linguistic interference when speech competition is in the same language versus different languages. This finding impacts understanding of language processing and auditory attention in bilinguals.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Perception
  • Bilingualism Research

Background:

  • Continuous speech competition can mask target information, affecting auditory comprehension.
  • Understanding linguistic interference in bilinguals is crucial for cognitive science and communication.
  • Previous research often focused on acoustic masking, with less emphasis on language-specific interference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify linguistic interference in bilingual speech perception beyond acoustic masking.
  • To compare interference effects when target and competitor speech are in the same vs. different languages.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) test with 24 bilingual English-Spanish speakers.
  • Assessed performance across four conditions: same-language target/competition (English-English, Spanish-Spanish) and different-language target/competition (English-Spanish, Spanish-English).

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  • Controlled for acoustic masking to isolate linguistic interference.

    • Main Results:

    • Significantly better performance was observed when the target and competition speech were in different languages (interlingual interference).
    • Poorer performance occurred when target and competition speech were in the same language (intralingual interference).
    • This difference persisted after accounting for acoustic masking effects.

    Conclusions:

    • Linguistic interference in continuous speech competition is greater when languages are the same.
    • Bilingual language processing involves distinct mechanisms for managing same-language vs. different-language auditory input.
    • Findings highlight the role of language-specific processing in overcoming auditory distraction for bilinguals.