Experiment reveals diminished speech intelligibility in Japanese under time-reversed and modulation-filtered conditions, suggesting linguistic structure impacts perception.
Key Points
Speech intelligibility declined under increased temporal distortions, highlighting challenges in comprehension.
Results indicated that intelligibility patterns in Japanese differed from those in English across varying distortions.
Participants evaluated both locally time-reversed and modulation-filtered Japanese sentences to assess comprehension.
Findings suggest that perceptual restoration mechanisms may differ between mora and syllable-based languages.