Acknowledging the Social Bases of Speech Intelligibility: A Key to Improving Equity in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

A major endeavor in psychological and physiological (P Wright McGowan, 2015; Tripp, Lyons, and Munson, 2022). These findings reinforce recent calls for P&P to revise the intelligibility measures used to characterize the consequences of hearing loss (i.e., Beechey, 2022a, 2022b). In particular, this talk argues for a collective research program developing entirely new speech intelligibility measures that reflect diverse ways of speaking, and the diverse functions of spoken language. Work funded by NIH grant R21 DC018070.