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Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment
Joint Authors
Govaerts, Paul J.
Coene, Martine
Krijger, Stefanie
Meeuws, Matthias
De Ceulaer, Geert
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-10-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In speech audiometric testing, hearing performance is typically measured by calculating the number of correct repetitions of a speech stimulus.
We investigate to what extent the repetition accuracy of Dutch speech stimuli presented against a background noise is influenced by nonauditory processes.
We show that variation in verbal repetition accuracy is partially explained by morpholexical and syntactic features of the target language.
Verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, and pronouns yield significantly lower correct repetitions than nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
The reduced repetition performance for verbs and function words is probably best explained by the similarities in the perceptual nature of verbal morphology and function words in Dutch.
For sentences, an overall negative effect of syntactic complexity on speech repetition accuracy was found.
The lowest number of correct repetitions was obtained with passive sentences, reflecting the cognitive cost of processing a noncanonical sentence structure.
Taken together, these findings may have important implications for the audiological practice.
In combination with hearing loss, linguistic complexity may increase the cognitive demands to process sentences in noise, leading to suboptimal functional hearing in day-to-day listening situations.
Using test sentences with varying degrees of syntactic complexity may therefore provide useful information to measure functional hearing benefits.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Coene, Martine& Krijger, Stefanie& Meeuws, Matthias& De Ceulaer, Geert& Govaerts, Paul J.. 2016. Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1098752
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Coene, Martine…[et al.]. Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment. BioMed Research International No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1098752
American Medical Association (AMA)
Coene, Martine& Krijger, Stefanie& Meeuws, Matthias& De Ceulaer, Geert& Govaerts, Paul J.. Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment. BioMed Research International. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1098752
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1098752