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  • 1Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 305 East 23rd Street STOP B5100, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.

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Summary

Clear speech significantly improves word recall and sentence comprehension for both native and non-native English speakers. This intelligibility enhancement aids deeper linguistic processing, benefiting memory encoding.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Perception
  • Speech Science

Background:

  • Clear speech, an intelligibility-enhancing speaking style, is often used to improve communication.
  • Previous research has primarily focused on recognition memory for words and sentences.
  • The impact of clear speech on deeper linguistic encoding remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of clear speech on listeners' recall performance.
  • To determine if clear speech benefits extend to syntactic and semantic information processing.

Main Methods:

  • Native (n=57) and non-native (n=31) English listeners participated.
  • Participants heard meaningful sentences produced in clear and conversational speech.
  • A cued-recall task was administered to assess memory.

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  • Listeners recalled significantly more words from sentences produced in clear speech.
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