Listening to Fast Speech: Aging and Sentence Context (original) (raw)

This study examines the impact of aging on the ability to process fast speech within different sentence contexts. It investigates how elderly and young listeners utilize contextual cues when faced with time-compressed speech at varying rates of speed. Results indicate that older adults experience greater difficulty detecting target words in fast speech. Additionally, the effectiveness of contextual support seems to diminish as the speed of speech increases, particularly for elderly participants who may rely less on predictive context.