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{"title":"Listening to Voices That Matter: The Speech Therapy Experiences of People Who Stutter.","authors":"Matthew C Phillips, Tammie J Spaulding","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00792","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00792","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study investigated the speech therapy experiences of people who stutter (PWS) in childhood and adulthood, including the helpfulness and generalizability of specific intervention approaches.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>PWS (<i>N</i> = 194) completed a mixed-methods survey. Respondents provided quantitative ratings of their overall opinion of speech therapy and of specific speech therapy approaches received during childhood and adulthood. Respondents also provided open-ended responses to questions asking what they found most and least helpful about speech therapy received during each life stage and why. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance; qualitative data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PWS reported mixed opinions of speech therapy, with speech therapy received during childhood viewed particularly unfavorably and rated significantly more negatively than that received during adulthood. Quantitative and qualitative analyses converged, with PWS generally preferring speech therapy approaches that emphasized the affective, behavioral, cognitive, and social correlates of stuttering over those that emphasized speech fluency.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results have important implications for improving the clinical practice of speech-language pathologists in their provision of speech therapy services to PWS across the lifespan. Through considering the lived experiences and voices of PWS in the development and execution of speech therapy programs, speech-language pathologists can enhance their evidence-based treatment practices for this population by delivering intervention that PWS value.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4645-4672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144986496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving Equitable and Culturally Sensitive Practices for Bahamian Creole English Speakers: Identifying Children's Typical Morphosyntactic Productions Through Language Sampling.","authors":"Stephanie McMillen, Simone Bellot","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-23-00721","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-23-00721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Morphosyntactic features of Bahamian Creole English (BCE), a natural language in the Bahamas, have been evaluated in adult language; however, we lack information on typical BCE morphosyntactic development in young children. This study evaluated typical morpheme production patterns across three different language sample tasks for BCE-speaking preschool-age children.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 30 Bahamian children ages 3-5 years who were reported to be typically developing per parent report. Children's productions of BCE morphemes across preschool age groups (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds) were evaluated using three different language sampling tasks: a 10-min play-based conversation, a story retell using a wordless picture book, and a story tell using the School-Age Language Assessment Measures cards. All data were collected in BCE and analyzed using the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts<i>.</i></p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Age group was not significantly related to the frequencies of BCE morpheme production. However, the type of language sample task administered mattered, as the number of morphemes children produced significantly differed by task type. Specifically, children produced significantly more BCE morphemes during the conversational language sample compared to the story tell and story retell tasks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Language sampling tasks are culturally sensitive measures for evaluating language development. For preschool-age children, conversational language samples may provide an optimal language sample context for children to produce morphosyntactic constructions in their natural language. Future research should evaluate the utility of conversational language samples for identifying at-risk status for developmental language disorder in BCE-speaking preschool children.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4829-4844"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145133285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of Musical Aptitude on the Perception of English Vowels: An Eye-Tracking Investigation Among Native Mandarin Speakers.","authors":"Jiayu Liang, Hao Zhang, Wen Ma, Hongwei Ding","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00916","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Previous research has suggested that individuals' higher musical aptitude enhances their speech perception in terms of pitch and temporal features. However, it remains unclear whether this cross-domain transfer could extend to the perception of second language (L2) vowels. The primary aim of this study is to investigate how musical aptitude influences the categorical perception of English vowels by native Mandarin speakers.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Sixty Mandarin speakers were assigned into a high aptitude (HA) group and a low aptitude (LA) group based on the median of their musical aptitude test scores. Each participant completed a visual-world eye-tracking experiment on the categorical perception of English vowels, which included the acoustically less salient /ɛ/-/æ/ contrast and the more salient /i/-/eɪ/ contrast. Statistical analyses were conducted on both behavioral and eye-tracking data to compare vowel categorization across different groups and vowel contrasts.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, the HA group significantly outperformed the LA group in vowel categorization. In addition, the Group × Contrast interaction on boundary width and correlational results on the eye-tracking parameter showed more robust effect of musical aptitude observed for the acoustically less salient /ɛ/-/æ/ contrast.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Mandarin speakers with relatively higher musical aptitude tend to show more refined categorization of L2 English vowels, with this cross-domain transfer effect modulated by acoustic salience.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"5021-5038"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144986235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting in School-Aged Children With Developmental Language Disorder.","authors":"Lauren S Baron, Asiya Gul, Annika L Schafer, Kelsey B Black, Annie B Fox, Yael Arbel","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) demonstrate impaired executive function skills, including shifting. However, language demands in shifting tasks make it difficult to accurately assess shifting ability. Combining behavioral measures (accuracy, reaction time) with event-related potentials (ERPs) can help dissociate the effects of language and shifting ability on task performance.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study examined shifting in 40 children, aged 8-12 years (20 with DLD, 20 with typical language development [TD]). A cued set-shifting paradigm presented visual cues to switch between two response rules. Single-rule blocks contained \"Single\" trials that repeated the same rule. Mixed-rule blocks contained \"Switch\" and \"Stay\" trials that alternated rules pseudorandomly. The amplitude and latency of the cue-P3 ERP component, indexing shift cue processing, were compared across groups and trial types.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Children with DLD had significantly longer reaction times than children with TD, but they achieved comparable accuracy. Mixing Cost was significantly greater for children with TD than DLD, reflecting an appropriate response to increased task difficulty in the mixed-rule blocks compared to the single-rule blocks. Switching Cost was significantly greater for children with DLD than TD, suggesting protracted processing of Switch versus Stay trials in the mixed-rule blocks. ERP data revealed different patterns of the cue-P3 component in each group; however, differences were not statistically significant. Children with TD had similar amplitude and latency across trial types. Children with DLD exhibited reduced amplitude for Single cues and delayed processing of Switch cues. Correlations between behavioral and electrophysiological measures were limited.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While children with DLD performed as accurately as their peers with TD, they took significantly longer to process cues and submit responses. Electrophysiological data suggest that cue processing may differ among children with DLD compared to those with TD, but more work is needed to assess the nature of these differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145294997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strings Versus Keys: A Comparison of Violinists, Pianists, and Nonmusicians in Lexical Tone Perception and Tone Word Learning.","authors":"Cheuk Lam Katie Ling, William Choi","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00133","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Correlational research has found that musicians outperform nonmusicians in lexical tone perception and tone word learning. In these studies, participants were dichotomized as either musicians or nonmusicians. However, musicianship is nonbinary, as different musical instruments have different pitch processing demands. Examining different types of musicianship would enable a more comprehensive understanding of music-to-language transfer. The present study investigated whether violinists would outperform pianists and nonmusicians in discriminating and identifying Thai contour tones and, if so, whether the violinists' advantage in Thai contour tones would also apply to Thai tone word learning.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Eighty-one Cantonese violinists, pianists, and nonmusicians completed a Thai tone discrimination task, a Thai tone identification task, and seven sessions of tone word identification training. Participants also completed a working memory task, a nonverbal intelligence task, and an inhibitory control task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the Thai tone discrimination task, the violinists, pianists, and nonmusicians performed similarly. In the Thai tone identification task, the violinists and pianists performed similarly, but both groups outperformed the nonmusicians. In the Thai tone word learning task, both the violinists and the pianists outperformed the nonmusicians, with violinists demonstrating the largest musical advantage. Unexpectedly, the violinists' advantage applied to some but not all contour and level tones.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results indicated that music-to-language transfer in tone word learning hinges on the type of musical instrument. Theoretically, there is a need to introduce elements of higher level linguistic processing and selectivity into the Overlap, Precision, Emotion, Repetition, and Attention hypothesis. Practically, the study suggests the potential of violin training in facilitating nonnative tone word learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4889-4916"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144986438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Volitional Control of Frequency and Intensity in Speakers With and Without Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders.","authors":"Mara R Kapsner-Smith, Juli Rosenzweig, Haley Wilcox, Neel Bhatt, J P Giliberto, Ludo Max, Tanya L Eadie, Cara E Stepp","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00182","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Prior studies of vocal auditory-motor control in people with hyperfunctional voice disorders (HVDs) have found evidence of unusually large responses to auditory feedback perturbations of fundamental frequency (<i>F</i>0) and more variable voice onset times in unperturbed speech. However, it is unknown whether people with HVDs perform similarly to people with typical voices when asked to make small changes in vocal parameters in volitional tasks. The purpose of this study was to compare performance on minimal movement tasks for <i>F</i>0 and intensity in people with and without HVDs.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twenty-six people with HVDs and 26 matched controls participated in tasks to assess the smallest volitional increases and decreases they could make in vocal <i>F</i>0 and intensity. Measures included the mean smallest change, variability of change, and accuracy of the direction of change. Group differences were tested with general linear models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No significant differences were found between people with and without HVDs on any of the measures. Singers produced significantly smaller mean smallest changes of both <i>F</i>0 and intensity than nonsingers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings support the interpretation of prior studies of auditory-motor control in people with HVDs. Specifically, unusually large responses to perturbations of vocal auditory feedback cannot be explained by a broader impairment of the ability to make small changes in the vocal parameters <i>F</i>0 or intensity. The method devised to assess minimal movements for voice is sensitive to relevant group differences, such as singing experience.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30004969.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4736-4748"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Language Sample Elicitation Context on Complex Syntax Use and Productivity in Preschool-Age Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.","authors":"Tiana M Cowan, Emily Lund, Krystal Werfel","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00240","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Speech-language pathologists tailor language sample elicitation methods to the goals of the assessment and the needs of each child. In school-age children, narrative retell and expository contexts elicit more complex language than conversational contexts. However, the impact of elicitation context on younger children has been less examined. This study examined how conversational, expository, and narrative retell contexts influence productivity and complex syntax in preschool-age children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) compared to peers with typical hearing (CTH).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This secondary analysis used data from Werfel et al. (2021). Participants were sixty-nine 4-year-old English-speaking children in three groups: DHH, age-matched peers (CTH-Age), and language-matched peers (CTH-Lang). Amplification type varied among participants who were DHH and included cochlear implants, hearing aids, and bone-anchored hearing aids. All participants communicated with spoken English and had limited exposure to sign language. Language samples were collected using Hadley's (1998) protocol, segmented by elicitation context, and analyzed for productivity (number of utterances, mean length of utterance in morphemes [MLUm]) and complex syntax use (proportion of complex syntax attempts). Generalized linear mixed models examined the effects of group and context on performance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All groups produced significantly more utterances in conversational contexts than in expository discourse or narrative retell. After accounting for the proportion of utterances per context, all groups produced utterances with significantly higher MLUm values and significantly more complex syntax attempts in expository discourse than in conversation. A similar, although nonsignificant, trend was observed for narrative retell.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Elicitation context influences productivity and complex syntax use in preschool-age children with and without hearing loss. Findings support the inclusion of varied contexts in clinical language sampling to match specific assessment goals, with expository and narrative retell contexts offering valuable opportunities to elicit complex syntax in preschool-age children.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4865-4877"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptation and Validation of the Child Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire Into Kannada.","authors":"Srirangam Vijayakumar Narasimhan, Govinda Yashaswini","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00571","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00571","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Parent-reported measures are one of the ways of gathering a child's language experience and proficiency. Because no parent-reported questionnaires are available in Kannada to assess children's language proficiency and experience, the present study aimed to adapt and validate the Child Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (CLEAP-Q) into Kannada.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We employed a cross-sectional study design. The CLEAP-Q was translated into Kannada using the standard guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation. Three groups of participants were handed out the final version of the CLEAP-Q in Kannada (KCLEAP-Q). One hundred parents of bilingual children whose first language (L1) was Kannada and second language (L2) was English were included in Group 1. Twenty-five parents of bilingual children whose L1 was Kannada and L2 was English were included in Group 2. Twenty-five parents of multilingual children whose L1 was Telugu, L2 was English, and third language was Kannada were included in Group 3. The responses from each participant were collected and statistically analyzed. The study used Cronbach's alpha (α) to evaluate test-retest reliability, factor analysis was used to determine internal consistency, and an independent-samples <i>t</i> test was conducted between Group 2 and Group 3 participants to assess known-groups validity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For all dimensions of bilingualism of L1 and L2, the KCLEAP-Q showed high test-retest reliability, with a Cronbach's α of more than .9. The factor analysis revealed good internal consistency, producing six factors. The KCLEAP-Q also showed a significant difference between the children with high and low proficiency in Kannada, thereby showing good known-groups validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Clinicians and researchers could use the KCLEAP-Q as a valid and reliable tool to assess language experience and proficiency in bilingual Kannada-speaking children.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4878-4888"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145133161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contribution of Memory Mechanisms and Socio-Emotional Functioning to the Production of Personal Narratives in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.","authors":"Mateja Gabaj, Jelena Kuvač Kraljević, Marleen F Westerveld","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00047","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Personal narrative production, or the ability to talk about past events that have been personally experienced, relies on a wide range of linguistic skills and is influenced by memory and socio-emotional traits. This study investigated the predictive role of memory mechanisms and socio-emotional functioning on personal narrative production in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) compared to children with typical language development (TLD).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Fifty 9- to 11-year-old Croatian-speaking children with DLD and 50 gender-matched peers with TLD narrated personal narratives elicited through emotion-based prompts using the Global TALES (Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories) protocol. Children's narratives were analyzed at linguistic, propositional, macrostructure-planning, and pragmatic levels. Children were also assessed using measures of memory mechanisms, including the episodic buffer, and semantic access and fluency, as well as measures of socio-emotional functioning using the Beck Youth Inventory.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed significant group differences in personal narrative production, with the DLD group demonstrating lower performance than the TLD group. It was found that episodic buffer, followed by anxiety, played a predictive role in personal narrative production, but group membership (DLD vs. TLD) did not moderate this variance.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings highlight the important contribution of nonlinguistic skills, including anxiety symptoms and the episodic buffer, in organizing information necessary for the construction of personal narratives at the individual level, regardless of group membership. This increased understanding of linguistic and nonlinguistic skills contributing to personal narrative performance has the potential to influence assessment and intervention practices for children with DLD.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4845-4864"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Amateur Choir Experience Modulates the Perception of Mandarin Sounds in Older Adults.","authors":"Yang Li, Xinxian Zhao, Xiaohu Yang","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00724","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Existing literature suggests that musical experience can enhance the auditory perception of acoustic features. However, it remains unclear whether such improvements in acoustic processing affect speech perception in older adults. The present study aimed to explore whether older adults with amateur choir experience can exhibit finer processing of acoustic features in perceiving Mandarin sounds than those without such experience, as indicated by hemispheric lateralization patterns in processing acoustic attributes of Mandarin sounds and the performance in lexical tone identification based on different acoustic cues.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Two experiments were conducted in this study. Experiment 1 compared the performance of older adults with and without amateur choir experience in dichotic listening tasks based on consonant-vowel (CV) syllables varying in consonants, vowels, and lexical tones. Experiment 2 examined the performance of two groups of older adults in identifying Mandarin tones under the fundamental frequency (<i>F</i>0)-only (with equal durations) and <i>F</i>0 + duration (with natural durations) conditions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experiment 1 revealed that older adults with amateur choir experience demonstrated an analytical processing mode for time and frequency features of speech sounds, as evidenced by more pronounced left-hemispheric lateralization in dichotic listening tasks based on CV syllables varying in consonants and in lexical tones. Furthermore, Experiment 2 showed that older adults with choir experience exhibited better performance than those without such experience in lexical tone identification under both the <i>F</i>0-only and <i>F</i>0 + duration conditions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The amateur choir experience may lead to an analytical processing mode of time and frequency features and boost the identification accuracy of Mandarin sounds based on these cues in the aging population. These findings substantiate the overlap, precision, emotion, repetition, and attention hypothesis and highlight the beneficial impact of amateur choir experience on speech perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"4978-4995"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}