Children’s perception of speech in reverberation

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Abstract
Recordings of nonsense syllables (VCV [vowel-consonant-vowel] construction) were presented to groups of children aged 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 yr and young adults under monaural (reverberation time = 0.6) and binaural (reverberation times = 0, 0.4, and 0.6 s) conditions of reverberations Phoneme identification performance was affected by age, reverberation, and mode of presentation (monaural vs. binaural). The major findings were phoneme identification scores in reverberant conditions improved with increasing age and decreased reverberation time; children''s performance in reverberant conditions did not reach asymptote until age 13 and binaural performance was consistently better than monaural performance for all age groups, with 5 yr olds showing the largest binaural advantage.