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Children with normal hearing (CNH) have greater difficulty segregating competing speech than do adults with normal hearing (ANH). Children with cochlear implants (CCI) have greater difficulty segregating competing speech than do CNH. In the present study, speech reception thresholds (SRTs) in competing speech were measured in Chinese Mandarin-speaking ANH, CNH, and CCIs. Target sentences were produced by a male Mandarin-speaking talker. Maskers were time-forward or -reversed sentences produced by a native Mandarin-speaking male (different from the target) or female or a non-native English-speaking male. The SRTs were lowest (best) for the ANH group, followed by the CNH and CCI groups. The masking release (MR) was comparable between the ANH and CNH group, but much poorer in the CCI group. The temporal properties differed between the native and non-native maskers and between forward and reversed speech. The temporal properties of the maskers were significantly associated with the SRTs for the CCI and CNH groups but not for the ANH group. Whereas the temporal properties of the maskers were significantly associated with the MR for all three groups, the association was stronger for the CCI and CNH groups than for the ANH group.

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