title: Effect of text complexity on connected discourse tracking rate.
abstract: The effect of three levels of text complexity upon connected discourse tracking rates was investigated in normal listeners who tracked by lipreading alone and by lipreading with auditorily presented voice pitch. Text complexity affected connected discourse tracking under both lipreading conditions, with tracking rates decreasing as the level of text complexity increased. The improvement in tracking rate with the addition of voice pitch information was found to be invariant over changes in text complexity when expressed as a simple difference between the two tracking rates.
authors.affiliation: Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hochberg
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ball
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013060:Speech; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception