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- Buss, E., Hall, S. C. F., Garcia, S., Capretta, G. S., & Calandruccio, L. (2025). English band importance functions in competing speech for Spanish-speaking second-language learners of English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(2), 1367-1376. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038978
- Wiseman, K. B., Cowan, T. M., Calandruccio, L., Walker, E. A., Rodriguez, B., Oleson, J. J., McCreery, R. W., Leibold, L. J., & Buss, E. (2025). Device use among Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, 68(1), 282-300. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00197
- Bosen, A. K., Wasiuk, P. A., Calandruccio, L., & Buss, E. (2024). Frequency importance for sentence recognition in co-located noise, co-located speech, and spatially separated speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(5), 3275-3284. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034412
- Leibold, L. J., Buss, E., Miller, M. K., Cowan, T., McCreery, R. W., Oleson, J., Rodriguez, B., & Calandruccio, L. (2024). Development of the children's English and Spanish speech recognition test: Psychometric properties, feasibility, reliability, and normative data. Ear & Hearing, 45(4), 860-877. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001480
- Cowan, T., Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., Rodriguez, B., & Leibold, L. J. (2023). Predicting language dominance in Spanish/English bilingual adults based on relative speech-in-speech recognition scores. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(5), 845-862. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069231195394
- Wasiuk, P. A., Calandruccio, L., Oleson, J. J., & Buss, E. (2023). Predicting speech-in-speech recognition: Short-term audibility and spatial separation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1827-1837. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021069
- Leibold, L. J., Calandruccio, L., & Buss, E. (2023). Building on the academic legacy of Pat Stelmachowicz and other pioneers in developmental psychoacoustics and pediatric audiology: The Children's English/Spanish Speech Recognition Test (ChEgSS). Seminars in Hearing, 44(S 01), S29-S35. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1764135
- Wasiuk, P. A., Buss, E., Oleson, J. J., & Calandruccio, L. (2022). Predicting speech-in-speech recognition: Short-term audibility, talker sex, and listener factors. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5). 3010-3024. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015228
- Cowan, T., Paroby, C., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E., Rodriguez, B., & Calandruccio, L. (2022). Masked-speech recognition for linguistically diverse populations: A focused review and suggestions for the future. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 65(8), 3195-3216. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00011
- Braza M. D., Porter, H. L., Buss, E., Calandruccio, L., McCreery, R. W., & Leibold, L. J. (2022). Effects of word familiarity and receptive vocabulary size on speech-in-noise recognition among young adults with normal hearing. PLoS One, 17(3), e0264581. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264581
- Calandruccio, L., & Weidman, D. (2022). Online simulation education for audiometry training. American Journal of Audiology, 31(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_aja-21-00121
- Calandruccio, L., Beninate, I., Oleson, J., Miller, M. K., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E., & Rodriguez, B. L. (2021). A simplified approach to quantifying a child's bilingual language experience. American Journal of Audiology, 30(3), 769-776. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_aja-20-00214
- Jett, B., Buss, E., Best, V., Oleson, J., & Calandruccio, L. (2021). Does sentence-level coarticulation affect speech recognition in noise or a speech masker?. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(4), 1390-1403. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00450
- Buss, E., Calandruccio, L., Oleson, J., & Leibold, L.J. Contribution of stimulus variability to word recognition in noise versus two-talker speech for school-age children and adults. Ear & Hearing, 42(2), 313-322. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000951
- Wasiuk, P. A., Radvansky, G. A., Greene, R. L., & Calandruccio, L. (2021). Spoken narrative comprehension for young adult listeners: effects of competing voices and noise. International Journal of Audiology 60(9), 711-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.1878397
- Calandruccio, L., Porter, H. L., Leibold, L. J., & Buss, E. (2020). The clear-speech benefit for school-age children: Speech-in-noise and speech-in-speech recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(12), 4265-4276. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00353
- Wasiuk, P. A., Lavandier, M., Buss, E., Oleson, J., & Calandruccio, L. (2020). The effect of fundamental frequency contour similarity on multi-talker listening in older and younger adults. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(6), 3527. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002661
- Miller, M. K., Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., McCreery, R. W., Oleson, J., Rodriguez, B., & Leibold, L. J. (2019). Masked english speech recognition performance in younger and older Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(12), 4578-4591. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_jslhr-19-00059
- Regalado, D., Kong, J., Buss, E., & Calandruccio, L. (2019). Effects of language history on sentence recognition in noise or two-talker speech: Monolingual, early bilingual, and late bilingual speakers of English. American Journal of Audiology, 28(4), 935-946. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_aja-18-0194
- Vicente, M., Calandruccio, L., Miller, M. K., Browning, J. M., Oleson, J., & Leibold, L. J. (2019). Language proficiency and dominance considerations when working with Spanish-English bilingual adults. American Journal of Audiology, 28(3), 724-729. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_aja-19-0028
- Buss, E., Hodge, S. E., Calandruccio, L., Leibold, L. J., & Grose, J. H. (2019). Masked sentence recognition in children, young adults, and older adults: Age-dependent effects of semantic context and masker type. Ear & Hearing, 40(5), 1117-1126. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000692
- Sobon, K. A., Taleb, N. M., Buss, E., Grose, J. H., & Calandruccio, L. (2019). Psychometric function slope for speech-in-noise and speech-in-speech: Effects of development and aging. The Journal or the Acoustical Society of America, 145(4), EL284-EL290. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5097377
- Calandruccio, L., Wasiuk, P. A., Buss, E., Leibold, L. J., Kong, J., Holmes, A., & Oleson, J. (2019). The effect of target/masker fundamental frequency contour similarity on masked-speech recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 1065. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5121314
- Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., Bencheck, P., & Jett, B. (2018). Does the semantic content or syntactic regularity of masker speech affect speech-on-speech recognition?. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(6), 3289. https://doi/10.1121/1.5081679
- García, P. B., Leibold, L., Buss, E., Calandruccio, L., & Rodriguez, B. (2018). Code-switching in highly proficient Spanish/English bilingual adults: Impact on masked word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(9), 2353-2363. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-H-17-0399
- Leibold, L. J., Buss, E., & Calandruccio, L. (2018). Developmental effects in masking release for speech-in-speech perception due to a target/masker sex mismatch. Ear & Hearing, 39(5), 935-945. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000554
- Gallun, F. J., Seitz, A., Eddins, D. A., Molis, M. R., Stavropoulos, T., Jakien, K. M., Kampel, S. D., Diedesch, A. C., Hoover, E. C., Bell, K., Souza, P. E., Sherman, M., Calandruccio, L., Xue, G., Taleb, N., Sebena, R., & Srinivasan, N. (2018). Development and validation of Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) measures for auditory research. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0000878
- Miller, G., Lewis, B., Benchek, P., Buss, E., & Calandruccio, L. (2018). Masked speech recognition and reading ability in school-age children: Is there a relationship?. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(3), 776-788. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_jslhr-h-17-0279
- Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., & Bowdrie, K. (2017). Effectiveness of two-talker maskers that differ in talker congruity and perceptual similarity to the target speech. Trends in Hearing, 21, 2331216517709385. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216517709385
- Calandruccio, L., & Buss, E. (2017). Spectral integration of English speech for non-native English speakers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(3), 1646. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5003933
- Calandruccio, L., Leibold, L. J., & Buss, E. (2016). Linguistic masking release in school-age children and adults. American Journal of Audiology, 25(1), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_aja-15-0053
- Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., & Doherty, K. A. (2016). The effect of presentation level on spectral weights for sentences. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(1), 466-71. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4940211
- Buss, E., Calandruccio, L., & Hall, J. W. (2015). Masked sentence recognition assessed at ascending target-to-masker ratios: Modest effects of repeating stimuli. Ear & Hearing, 36(2), e14-e22. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000113
- Leibold, L. J., Hodson, H., McCreery, R. W., Calandruccio, L., & Buss, E. (2015). Effects of low-pass filtering on the perception of word-final plurality markers in children and adults with normal hearing. American Journal of Audiology, 23(3), 351-358. https://doi.org/10.1044/2014_aja-14-0003
- Calandruccio, L., Gomez, B., Buss, E., & Leibold, L. J. (2014). Development and preliminary evaluation of a pediatric Spanish-English speech perception task. American Journal of Audiology, 23(2), 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1044/2014_aja-13-0055
- Calandruccio, L., & Zhou, H. (2014). Increase in speech recognition due to linguistic mismatch between target and masker speech: Monolingual and simultaneous bilingual performance. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57(3), 1089-1097. https://doi.org/10.1044/2013_jslhr-h-12-0378
- Calandruccio, L., Bradlow, A. R., Dhar, S. (2014). Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech for native and nonnative english speakers. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 25(4), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.25.4.7
- Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., & Hall, J. W. (2014). Effects of linguistic experience on the ability to benefit from temporal and spectral masker modulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(3):1335-1343. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4864785
- Calandruccio, L., Brouwer, S., Van Engen, K. J., Dhar, S., & Bradlow, A. R. (2013). Masking release due to linguistic and phonetic dissimilarity between the target and masker speech. American Journal of Audiology, 22(1), 157-164. https://doi.org/10.1044/1059-0889(2013/12-0072)
- Rimikis, S., Smiljanic, R., & Calandruccio, L. (2013). Nonnative English speaker performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentences. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56(3), 792-804. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0178)
- Calandruccio, L., & Smiljanic, R. (2012). New sentence recognition materials developed using a basic non-native English lexicon. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(5), 1342-1355. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2012/11-0260)
- Brouwer, S., Van Engen, K. J., Calandruccio, L., & Bradlow, A. R. (2012). Linguistic contributions to speech-on-speech masking for native and non-native listeners: language familiarity and semantic content. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(2), 1449-1464. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3675943
- Calandruccio, L., Van Engen, K., Dhar, S., & Bradlow, A. R. (2010). The effectiveness of clear speech as a masker. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(6), 1458-1471. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0210)
- Calandruccio, L., Dhar, S., & Bradlow, A. R. (2010). Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(2), 860-869. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3458857
- Deeter, R., Abel, R., Calandruccio, L., & Dhar, S. (2009). Contralateral acoustic stimulation alters the magnitude and phase of distortion product otoacoustic emissions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(5), 2413-2424. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3224716
- Prieve, B. A., Calandruccio, L., Fitzgerald, T., Mazevski, A., & Georgantas, L. M. (2008). Changes in transient-evoked otoacoustic emission levels with negative tympanometric peak pressure in infants and toddlers. Ear & Hearing, 29(4), 533-542. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0b013e3181731e3e
- Calandruccio, L., & Doherty, K. A. (2008). Spectral weighting strategies for hearing-impaired listeners measured using a correlational method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(4), 2367-2378. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2887857
- Calandruccio, L., Doherty, K. A., Carney, L. H., & Kikkeri, H. N. (2007). Perception of temporally processed speech by listeners with hearing impairment. Ear & Hearing, 28(4), 512-523. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0b013e31806dc1fe
- Calandruccio, L., & Doherty, K. A. (2007). Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(6), 3827-3836. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2722211
- Anzalone, M. C., Calandruccio, L., Doherty, K. A., & Carney, L. H. (2006). Determination of the potential benefit of time-frequency gain manipulation. Ear & Hearing, 27(5), 480-492. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.aud.0000233891.86809.df
- Calandruccio, L., Fitzgerald, T. S., & Prieve, B. A. (2006). Normative multifrequency tympanometry in infants and toddlers. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 17(7), 470-480. https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.17.7.2
- Dhar, S., Humes, L. E., Calandruccio, L., Barlow, N. N., & Hipskind, N. (2004). Predictability of speech-in-noise performance from real ear measures of directional hearing AIDS. Ear & Hearing, 25(2), 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.aud.0000121236.56217.8f