| AV | Audiovisual |
| IST | Illustrated Sentence Test |
| WM | Working memory |
| PS | Processing speed |
| CAVET | Children’s Audio-visual Enhancement Test |
| Tri-BAS | 3 × 3 Build-A-Sentence |
| CUNY | City University of New York |
| Ess | English speakers |
| JSs | Japanese speakers |
| SLI | Specific language impairments |
| SNRs | Signal-to-noise ratios |
| SSN | Speech-shaped noise |
| MEG | Magnetoencephalography |
| EEG | Electroencephalography |
| fNIRS | functional Near-infrared spectroscopy |
| TVSA | Temporal visual speech area |