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    Semantic Cues Modulate Children’s and Adults’ Processing of Audio-Visual Face Mask Speech
    with Julia Schwarz, Katrina Kechun Li, Yixin Zhang, Elizabeth Buchanan-Worster, Brechtje Post, Jenny Louise Gibson, and Kirsty McDougall
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, questions have been raised about the impact of face masks on communication in classroom settings. However, it is unclear to what extent visual obstruction of the speaker’s mouth or changes to the acoustic signal lead to speech processing difficulties, and whether these effects can be mitigated by semantic predictability, i.e., the availability of contextual information. The present study investigated the acoustic and visual effects of face masks on speech intelligib…Read more