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  • Psycholinguistics
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Background:

  • Non-native listeners often exhibit reduced speech intelligibility in noise compared to native listeners.
  • Even with matched performance, non-native listeners may expend greater listening effort, potentially leading to fatigue and reduced task performance.
  • Task-evoked pupil response is a validated physiological measure of cognitive effort.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate differences in listening effort between native and non-native English speakers using pupillometry.
  • To determine if pupil response is sensitive to speech intelligibility levels in quiet and noisy conditions.
  • To explore the relationship between listener type (native vs. non-native) and cognitive effort during speech perception in noise.

Main Methods:

  • Compared pupil responses of 23 native English speakers and 27 Italian-English bilinguals.
  • Assessed speech intelligibility of sentences in quiet and noise at matched performance levels.
  • Used adaptive tasks to determine signal-to-noise ratios for specific intelligibility levels.
  • Measured task-evoked pupil responses as an indicator of cognitive listening effort.

Main Results:

  • Pupil response was significantly greater in non-native listeners compared to native listeners across both intelligibility levels.
  • Indicates increased listening effort for non-native speakers when understanding speech in noise, even at equivalent performance.
  • Pupil response was sensitive to speech intelligibility, confirming its utility in speech perception research.
  • Contrary to predictions, pupil response was not differentially modulated by intelligibility levels between groups.

Conclusions:

  • Pupillometry is a valid tool for measuring listening effort in speech perception research.
  • Non-native listeners require greater cognitive effort to achieve comparable speech intelligibility in noise.
  • Differences in listening effort can be detected using pupillometry even when behavioral performance is similar.
  • Findings underscore the importance of considering cognitive load in second language acquisition and processing.